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Split Brain Surgically Performed in Developing and in Adult Cats: Physiological Properties and Recovery of Visual Cortex Neurons

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Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity

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Physiologically, several different experimental approaches have been so far adopted in order to demonstrate the involvement of visual cortex cells in interhemispheric relationships. Of these approaches the main ones will be briefly described here.

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  1. Physiological Laboratory, Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Eye Research Institute, Tel-Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, 52621, Israel

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Yinon, U., Chen, M. (1988). Split Brain Surgically Performed in Developing and in Adult Cats: Physiological Properties and Recovery of Visual Cortex Neurons. In: Flohr, H. (eds) Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73849-4_18

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