Responses to moving visual stimuli in pretectal neurons of the small-spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 200-207

  Masseck, Olivia Andrea ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHONDRICHTHYAN; DOGFISH; FEMALE; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOGFISH; FEMALE; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TEGMENTUM MESENCEPHALI; VESTIBULE, LABYRINTH; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 38349042546     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00926.2007     Document Type: Article

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