Refinement but not maintenance of visual receptive fields is independent of visual experience

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 904-917

  Balmer, Timothy S ^a   Pallas, Sarah L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adult plasticity; critical period; dark rearing; rodent; visual deprivation

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REFINEMENT; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; DARKNESS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING; MESOCRICETUS; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; VISION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DARKNESS; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84926668927     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht281     Document Type: Article

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