A dissociation of motion and spatial-pattern vision in the avian telencephalon: Implications for the evolution of "visual streams"

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 4962-4970

  Nguyen, Angela P ^a   Spetch, Marcia L ^a   Crowder, Nathan A ^a,b   Winship, Ian R ^a   Hurd, Peter L ^a   Wylie, Douglas R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ectostriatum; Extrastriate pathway; Pattern vision; Pigeon; Tectofugal; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GRATING; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; MOTION PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 2542518609     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0146-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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