Color blobs in cortical areas V1 and V2 of the New World monkey Callithrix jacchus, revealed by non-differential optical imaging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 7881-7894

  Valverde Salzmann, Matthias F ^a   Bartels, Andreas ^a,b   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,c   Schüz, Almut ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR VISION; CALLITHRIX; COLOR VISION; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; MACACA; MONOCULAR VISION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; CALLITHRIX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COLOR VISION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOMINANCE, OCULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84861852467     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4832-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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