Auditory and visual space maps in the cholinergic nucleus isthmi pars parvocellularis of the barn owl

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 49, 2006, Pages 12799-12806

  Maczko, Kristin A ^a   Knudsen, Phyllis F ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimodal; Optic tectum; Spatial attention; Superior colliculus; Target selection; Winner take all

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEARING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33845445069     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3946-06.2006     Document Type: Article

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