Area 21a of cat visual cortex strongly modulates neuronal activities in the superior colliculus

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 550, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 535-552

  Hashemi Nezhad, M ^a   Wang, C ^a   Burke, W ^a   Dreher, Bogdand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRIATE CORTEX; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; DIRECTIONAL VISION; NERVE PROJECTION; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATS; COLD; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0038793541     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.043216     Document Type: Review

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