The accessory optic system contributes to the spatio-temporal tuning of motion-sensitive pretectal neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1140-1151

  Crowder, Nathan A ^a   Lehmann, Hugo ^a   Parent, Marise B ^a   Wylie, Douglas R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HISTOLOGY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; OPTICS; PIGEON; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0042316774     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00653.2002     Document Type: Article

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