Dark rearing reveals the mechanism underlying stimulus size tuning of superior colliculus neurons

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 741-748

  Razak, Khaleel A ^a,b   Pallas, Sarah L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Dark rearing; Inhibitory circuit; Receptive field properties; Retinotectal; Rodent; Size tuning; Stimulus tuning; Superior colliculus; Visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; EXCITATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL DEPRIVATION;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; DARK ADAPTATION; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MESOCRICETUS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIZE PERCEPTION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33845918375     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523806230062     Document Type: Article

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