Stimulus for rapid ocular dominance plasticity in visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2947-2950

  Rittenhouse, Cynthia D ^a   Siegler, Beth A ^a   Voelker, Courtney A ^a   Shouval, Harel Z ^a   Paradiso, Michael A ^a   Bear, Mark F ^a,b,c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE DOMINANCE; EYELID CLOSURE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CATS; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33646183469     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01328.2005     Document Type: Article

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