Experience-dependent plasticity from eye opening enables lasting, visual cortex-dependent enhancement of motion vision

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 9817-9827

  Prusky, Glen T ^a,b   Silver, Byron D ^b   Tschetter, Wayne W ^a,b   Alam, Nazia M ^a,b   Douglas, Robert M ^c  

^a BURKE MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical period; Optokinetic; Optomotor; Plasticity; Visual cortex; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECT; EYE; LONG EVANS RAT; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NEWBORN; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL FIELD;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; EYE; FEMALE; GABA AGONISTS; MALE; MOTION; MUSCIMOL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NYSTAGMUS, OPTOKINETIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 55749097423     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1940-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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