Experience-dependent orientation plasticity in the visual cortex of rats chronically exposed to a single orientation

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-90

  O'Hashi, Kazunori ^a,b   Miyashita, Masanobu ^b   Tanaka, Shigeru ^a,b  

^a KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Experience dependent plasticity; Goggle rearing; Intrinsic signal optical imaging; Over representation; Rat; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; LENS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EYE PROTECTIVE DEVICES; LEARNING; LENSES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247621806     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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