Processing Deficits in Primary Visual Cortex of Amblyopic Cats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1661-1671

  Schmidt, Kerstin E ^a   Singer, Wolf ^a   Galuske, Ralf A W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; CATS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 1542615177     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00878.2003     Document Type: Article

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