Monocular deprivation reduces reliability of visual cortical responses to binocular disparity stimuli

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3553-3563

  Vorobyov, Vasily ^a,b   Schwarzkopf, D Samuel ^a,d   Mitchell, Donald E ^c   Sengpiel, Frank ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binocular exposure; Monocular deprivation; Single cell recordings; Spatial phase disparity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 36949040821     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05946.x     Document Type: Article

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