This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31171082); the Key Project of Natural Science Research of the Education Bureau of Anhui Province (KJ2014A284); the Foundation of Key Laboratories of Anhui Province and Key Laboratories of Universities of Anhui Province
To explore the neural mechanisms mediating agingrelated visual function declines, we compared the expressions of brain-derived neurotrophic factor(BDNF) and its high affinity receptor-tyrosine kinase B(Trk B) betw...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31171082);Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province(070413138);the Key Research Foundation of Anhui Province Education Department(KJ2009A167)
Psychophysical experiments on human and animal subjects have proven that aged individuals show significantly reduced visual contrast sensitivity compared with young adults.To uncover the possible neural mechanisms,we ...
Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (070413138);the Key Research Foundation of Anhui Province Education Department (KJ2009A167)
Previous studies have shown that visual cortical neurons in old mammals exhibit higher spontaneous activity,higher responsiveness to visual stimuli,and lower selectivity for stimulus orientations and motion directions...
This work was supported by the Foundationfor Key Laboratories of Anhui Province andthe Initiating Fundfor Ph.D.in AnhuiNormal University
Perceptual learning of orientation discrimination was investigated using cats. Two adult cats (Cat 1 and 2) were trained to monocularly discriminate between two static striped sinusoidal grates with 30° orientation...