Spatial and Temporal Properties of Visual Responses in the Thalamus of the Developing Ferret

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 170-182

  Akerman, Colin J ^a,b   Grubb, Matthew S ^a   Thompson, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed eyelids; dLGN; Ferret; Natural scenes; Response properties; Visual development

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FERRET; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THALAMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FERRETS; KINETICS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; THALAMUS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0842344416     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1002-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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