Exploring the pulvinar path to visual cortex

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 171, Issue , 2008, Pages 467-473

  Berman, Rebecca A ^a   Wurtz, Robert H ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

monkey visual pathways; MT; pulvinar; superior colliculus; two visual pathways

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; REVIEW; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 49349096954     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00668-7     Document Type: Chapter

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