What the birds brain tells the birds eye: The function of descending input to the avian retina

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 337-350

  Wilson, Martin ^a   Lindstrom, Sarah H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amacrine cell; Centrifugal visual system; Efferent fibers; Isthmo optic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL ANATOMY; BIRD; BRAIN; BRAIN NUCLEUS; EFFERENT NERVE; EYE; ISTHMOOPTIC NUCLEUS; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; PHYLOGENY; PIGEON; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; SYNAPSE; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ANIMAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MESENCEPHALON; PHYSIOLOGY; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; BRAIN; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 80055030286     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523811000022     Document Type: Review

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