Universality in the evolution of orientation columns in the visual cortex

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6007, 2010, Pages 1113-1116

  Kaschube, Matthias ^a,b,c   Schnabel, Michael ^a,b,d   Löwel, Siegrid ^a,e   Coppola, David M ^f   White, Leonard E ^g   Wolf, Fred ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f RANDOLPH MACON COLLEGE   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CANALIZATION (BIOLOGY); MAMMAL; NEUROLOGY; RADIATION BALANCE; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORIENTATION; PLACENTA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FERRETS; GALAGO; NEURONS; TUPAIIDAE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EUTHERIA; GALAGO; MUSTELA; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 78449305733     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1194869     Document Type: Article

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