Laminar profile of visual response properties in ferret superior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1333-1345

  Stitt, Iain ^a   Galindo Leon, Edgar ^a   Pieper, Florian ^a   Engler, Gerhard ^a   Engel, Andreas K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ferret; Oscillations; Superior colliculus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FERRET; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA NERVE CELL; SPIKE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

FERRET; OSCILLATIONS; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; FERRETS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84884180763     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00957.2012     Document Type: Article

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