Functional selectivity of interhemispheric connections in cat visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2451-2465

  Rochefort, N L ^a,b,e   Buzas P ^c   Quenech'Du, N ^b   Koza, A ^c   Eysel, U T ^a   Milleret, C ^b   Kisvarday Z F ^d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area 17; Area 18; Callosal connections; Corpus callosum; Long range connections; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMISPHERE; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CATS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70349605830     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhp001     Document Type: Article

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