Functional MRI and functional connectivity of the visual system of awake pigeons

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 239, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 43-50

  De Groof, Geert ^a   Jonckers, Elisabeth ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^b   Denolf, Petra ^a   Van Auderkerke, Johan ^a   Van der Linden, Annemie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian; Awake imaging; BOLD; E; Entopallium; FC; GLd; ROI; RsfMRI; Rt; TE; TR; Visual asymmetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTOPALLIUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PIGEON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TELENCEPHALON; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WAKEFULNESS;

ANIMALS; COLUMBIDAE; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84869231846     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.10.044     Document Type: Article

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