Chapter 17 Crossmodal audio-visual interactions in the primary visual cortex of the visually deprived cat: a physiological and anatomical study

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 155 B, Issue , 2006, Pages 287-311

  Sanchez Vives, M V ^a   Nowak, L G ^b   Descalzo, V F ^a   Garcia Velasco, J V ^a   Gallego, R ^a   Berbel, P ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b Brain and Cognition Research Center in Toulouse   (France)

Author keywords

critical period; crossmodal; multisensory; plasticity; visually deprived

Indexed keywords

CALRETININ; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ; NERVE PROTEIN; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPRASYLVIAN GYRUS; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL COUNT; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 33749265637     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)55017-4     Document Type: Review

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