What can mice tell us about how vision works?

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 464-473

  Huberman, Andrew D ^a   Niell, Cristopher M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MICE; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; THALAMUS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 81155162588     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: 1878108X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2011.07.002     Document Type: Review

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