Mechanisms underlying development of visual maps and receptive fields

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue , 2008, Pages 479-509

  Huberman, Andrew D ^a   Feller, Marla B ^b   Chapman, Barbara ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent; Axon guidance; Axonal refinement; Retinal waves; Synaptogenesis; Visual plasticity

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

ASSOCIATION; CELL ADHESION; DENDRITIC CELL; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EYE DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; REVIEW; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAVEFORM;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GROWTH CONES; HUMANS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RETINA; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 48249122724     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.31.060407.125533     Document Type: Review

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