A postnatal critical period for orientation plasticity in the cat visual cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Tanaka, Shigeru ^a   Tani, Toshiki ^a   Ribot, Jérôme ^a,b   O'Hashi, Kazunori ^a,c   Imamura, Kazuyuki ^a,d  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d MAEBASHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 5 PHOSPHONOVALERIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; KITTEN; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; AGE; ANIMAL; CAT; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ORIENTATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CATS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 65549127186     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005380     Document Type: Article

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