Cortical cell orientation selectivity fails to develop in the absence of ON-center retinal ganglion cell activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1922-1930

  Chapman, Barbara ^a,b   Gödecke, Imke ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Optical Imaging Europe   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity; Development ferret; DL 2 amino 4 phosphonobutyric acid; ON center pathway; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 4 PHOSPHONOBUTYRIC ACID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0342748360     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-05-01922.2000     Document Type: Article

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