Evidence That Primary Visual Cortex Is Required for Image, Orientation, and Motion Discrimination by Rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Petruno, Sarah K ^a   Clark, Robert E ^b   Reinagel, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC FLOW; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FEEDBACK; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; MALE; MOTION; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84874153147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056543     Document Type: Article

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