The role of the dorsal thalamus in visual processing and object selection: A case of an attentional system in amphibians

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3459-3470

  Ruhl, Tim ^a,b   Dicke, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extracellular recording; Plethodon shermani; Tectum; Thalamic lesion; Visual ascending pathway

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENICULATE BODY; HEMISPHERE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECOGNITION; SALAMANDER; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TECTUM; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TELENCEPHALON; THALAMUS; URODELA; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84870555336     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08271.x     Document Type: Article

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