Retinogeniculostriate pathway components scale with orbit convergence only in primates and not in other mammals

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 105-115

  Heesy, Christopher P ^a   Kamilar, Jason M ^b   Willms, Jonathan ^a  

^a MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Binocular vision; Lateral geniculate nucleus; Mammals; Optic nerve; Orbit orientation; Primary visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HAMSTER; HISTOLOGY; MAMMAL; MOUSE; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMATE; RABBIT; RAT; RETINA; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; CRICETINAE; MAMMALS; MICE; OPTIC NERVE; ORBIT; PRIMATES; RABBITS; RATS; RETINA; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79955603777     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324860     Document Type: Article

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