Sensitivity to relative disparity in early visual cortex of pigmented and albino ferrets

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 379-389

  Kalberlah, C ^a,b   Distler, C ^a   Hoffmann, K P ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Albinism; Disparity sensitivity; Mustela putorius furo; Striate cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FERRET; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALBINISM, OCULAR; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERRETS; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINAL PIGMENTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION DISPARITY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 57749182697     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1545-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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