The Avian Visual System

How Animals See the World: Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shimizu, Toru ^a   Watanabe, Shigeru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avian visual system; Bidbrain optic tectum; Entopallium; Lemnothalamic pathway; Neural networks; Nucleus rotundum; Primates; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920662185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195334654.003.0025     Document Type: Chapter

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