Chilean Brush-Tailed Mouse (Octodon degus): A Diurnal Precocial Rodent as a New Model to Study Visual Receptive Field Properties of Superior Colliculus Neurons

Medicine, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Life Sciences, Biophysics,
visual system   superior colliculus   receptive field   diurnal   Chilean degu   visual physiology   visual development  

The Chilean Brush-tailed Mouse (Octodon degus) as a New Model for Studying the Visual System Academic Background The study of the visual system has always been an important topic in the field of neuroscience. Traditionally, scientists have used nocturnal or crepuscular rodents (such as hamsters, rats, and mice) as models to study the development an...