Temporal contrast sensitivity in the lateral geniculate nucleus of a New World monkey, the marmoset Callithrix jacchus

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 517, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 907-917

  Solomon, Samuel G ^a   White, Andrew J R ^a   Martin, Paul R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ISOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; VISUAL FIELD; ANIMAL CELL; CALLITHRIX JACCHUS; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HISTOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; KONIOCELLULAR CELL; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; PARVOCELLULAR CELLS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALLITHRIX; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; GENICULATE BODIES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0344327125     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1999.0907s.x     Document Type: Article

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