Rapid innate defensive responses of mice to looming visual stimuli

Current Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 2011-2015

  Yilmaz, Melis ^a,b   Meister, Markus ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ANIMALS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886285012     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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