Evidence that primary visual cortex is required for image, orientation, and motion discrimination by rats.

The pigmented Long-Evans rat has proven to be an excellent subject for studying visually guided behavior including quantitative visual psychophysics. This observation, together with its experimental accessibility and its close homology to the mouse, has made it an attractive model system in which to...

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Main Authors: Sarah K Petruno, Robert E Clark, Pamela Reinagel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3575509?pdf=render