Optical imaging of retinotopic maps in a small songbird, the zebra finch

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Keary, Nina ^a   Voss, Joe ^a   Lehmann, Konrad ^b   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a   Löwel, Siegrid ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINOTOPIC MAP; SONGBIRD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL WULST; ANIMAL; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; OPTICAL PROCESSES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SONGBIRDS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 77957764875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011912     Document Type: Article

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