Responses of tectal neurons to contrasting stimuli: An electrophysiological study in the barn owl

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Zahar, Yael ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^b   Gutfreund, Yoram ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC TECTUM; OWL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 84862654576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039559     Document Type: Article

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