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Optical Imaging of Retinotopic Maps in a Small Songbird, the Zebra Finch

BACKGROUND: The primary visual cortex of mammals is characterised by a retinotopic representation of the visual field. It has therefore been speculated that the visual wulst, the avian homologue of the visual cortex, also contains such a retinotopic map. We examined this for the first time by optica...

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Autores principales: Keary, Nina, Voss, Joe, Lehmann, Konrad, Bischof, Hans-Joachim, Löwel, Siegrid
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20694137
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011912