Functional topography of converging visual and auditory inputs to neurons in the rat superior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 2933-2946

  Skaliora, Irini ^a   Doubell, Timothy P ^a   Holmes, Nicholas P ^a   Nodal, Fernando R ^a   King, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS BRACHIUM; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPERFICIAL VISUAL LAYER; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE; VISUAL SYSTEM; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VISION;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 14844328718     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00450.2004     Document Type: Article

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