Visual Cortex in the Albino Rabbit

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Journal Exp Brain Res

Specialty Neurology

Date 1987 Jan 1

PMID 3609201

Citations 6

Authors

B P CHOUDHURY

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Abstract

Cortical projection of the visual field on the albino rabbit's cortex has been investigated and compared with that in the pigmented rabbit. A lower magnification of the projection of the temporal visual streak (nasal visual field) in the albino rabbit is attributed to the absence of an area centralis-like organization of the retinal ganglion cells in the temporal visual streak in this animal. Cortical single units in the albino rabbit show a lesser variety in their receptive field organization than those in the pigmented rabbit.

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