Visual Wulst analyses "where" and entopallium analyses " what" in the zebra finch visual system

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-56

  Watanabe, Shigeru ^a   Mayer, Uwe ^b   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Birds; Brain lesions; Pattern discrimination; Spatial discrimination; Visual system; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTOPALLIUM LESION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WULST LESION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FINCHES; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; THALAMUS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 79953728212     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.035     Document Type: Article

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