Asymmetrical modes of visual bottom-up and top-down integration in the thalamic nucleus rotundus of pigeons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 43, 2004, Pages 9475-9485

  Folta, Kristian ^a   Diekamp, Bettina ^b   Güntürkün, Onur ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Lateralization; Rotundus; Tectofugal system; Thalamofugal system; Visual system

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; LATENT PERIOD; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LIDOCAINE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; THALAMIC NUCLEI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 7444229100     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3289-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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