Imprinting modulates processing of visual information in the visual wulst of chicks

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Maekawa, Fumihiko ^a,b,c   Komine, Okiru ^a   Sato, Katsushige ^a   Kanamatsu, Tomoyuki ^d   Uchimura, Motoaki ^a   Tanaka, Kohichi ^a   Ohki Hamazaki, Hiroko ^a,e  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d SOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHICK; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARK ADAPTATION; HATCHING; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL DETECTION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; COLOR PERCEPTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; IMPRINTING (PSYCHOLOGY); PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33845272336     PISSN: 14712202     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-75     Document Type: Article

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