Recovery of cortical binocularity and orientation selectivity after the critical period for ocular dominance plasticity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2113-2121

  Liao, David S ^a   Krahe, Thomas E ^a   Prusky, Glen T ^b   Medina, Alexandre E ^a   Ramoa, Ary S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICAL BINOCULARITY; EYE DOMINANCE; FERRET; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; ORIENTATION SELECTIVITY; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DOMINANCE, OCULAR; FERRETS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISION, MONOCULAR;

EID: 4644337650     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00266.2004     Document Type: Article

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