Spatial coding and response redundancy in parallel visual pathways of the marmoset Callithrix jacchus

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 479-491

  Forte, Jason D ^a,b   Hashemi Nezhad, Maziar ^c   Dobbie, William J ^a,b   Dreher, Bogdan ^c   Martin, Paul R ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Koniocellular; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Spatial vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LUMINANCE; MARMOSET; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; GENICULATE BODIES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 32544444132     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523805224094     Document Type: Article

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