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The optic tectum controls visually guided adaptive plasticity in the owl's auditory space map

✍ Scribed by Hyde, Peter S.; Knudsen, Eric I.

Book ID: 109802662
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 468 KB
Volume: 415
Category: Article
ISSN: 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/415073a

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