Shadows cast by retinal blood vessels mapped in primary visual cortex

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5593, 2002, Pages 572-576

  Adams, Daniel L ^a   Horton, Jonathan C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; VISION;

VISUAL CORTEX;

BLOOD;

BIOLOGY; BLOOD; VISION;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SCOTOMA; SQUIRREL MONKEY; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EYE ENUCLEATION; GENICULATE BODIES; NEURONS; OPTIC DISK; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL VEIN; RETINAL VESSELS; SAIMIRI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SAIMIRI; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0037131216     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1074887     Document Type: Article

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