Visuospatial discrimination deficit in rats after ibotenate lesions in anteromedial visual cortex

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 989-994

  Sánchez, Raúl F ^b   Montero, Vicente M ^a   Espinoza, Sergio G ^b   Díaz, Eugenia ^b   Canitrot, Mario ^b   Pinto Hamuy, Teresa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Brightness discrimination; Cortical streams; Extrastriate; Parietal cortex; Peristriate; Visual system

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRIGHTNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 17144456735     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00201-1     Document Type: Article

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