Experience-dependent binocular competition in the visual cortex begins at eye opening

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 370-375

  Smith, Spencer L ^a   Trachtenberg, Joshua T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EYE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33847204583     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1844     Document Type: Article

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