Unilateral paralytic strabismus in the adult cat induces plastic changes in interocular disparity along the visual midline: Contribution of the corpus callosum

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 325-343

  Milleret, Chantal ^a,b   Buser, P ^a   Watroba, L ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

Author keywords

17 18 transition zone; Neural basis for depth perception; Plasticity; Unilateral impairment of vision; Visual interhemispheric transfer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE DOMINANCE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STRABISMUS; VISION DISPARITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 24944452643     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523805223088     Document Type: Article

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