A motion-sensitive area in ferret extrastriate visual cortex: An analysis in pigmented and albino animals

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 779-790

  Philipp, R ^a   Distler, C ^a   Hoffmann, K P ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albinism; Direction selectivity; Extrastriate visual cortex; Ferret; Radial motion sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ALBINISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FERRET; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALBINISM, OCULAR; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FERRETS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PIGMENTATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33644861146     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj022     Document Type: Article

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