The Evolution of Visual Cortex in Primates

The Primate Visual System: A Comparative Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 267-283

  Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early anthropoid primates; Early primate visual cortex; Frontal eye field (FEF); Hominid visual cortex; Magnocellular (MC) and parvocellular (PC) layers; Primate visual cortex evolution; Tarsier visual cortex; Visual cortex organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889314049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/0470868112.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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