Cortical development of the visual system of the rat

NeuroReport

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 50-54

  Prévost, François ^a   Lepore, Franco ^a   Guillemot, Jean Paul ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contrast sensitivity; Directionality; Spatial frequency; Temporal frequency

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74349128739     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328333d6ac     Document Type: Article

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