Segregation of short-wavelength sensitive ("blue") cone signals among neurons in the lateral geniculate nucleus and striate cortex of marmosets

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 26, 2008, Pages 2604-2614

  Hashemi Nezhad, Maziar ^a   Blessing, Esther M ^b,c   Dreher, Bogdan ^a   Martin, Paul R ^b,c  

^a Institute for Biomedical Research   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Colour vision; Electrophysiology; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Striate cortex

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; COLOR PERCEPTION; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FEMALE; GENICULATE BODIES; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 55149103535     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.017     Document Type: Article

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