Lack of patchy horizontal connectivity in primary visual cortex of a mammal without orientation maps

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 29, 2006, Pages 7680-7692

  Van Hooser, Stephen D ^a,b   Heimel, J Alexander ^a   Chung, Sooyoung ^a   Nelson, Sacha B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional architecture; Horizontal connections; Orientation maps; Retrograde labeling; Squirrel; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RODENT; SQUIRREL; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIURIDAE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; NEURONS; SCIURIDAE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33747069690     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0108-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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