Program#/Poster#:\t 72.5/LL12

Title:\t Cholinergic modulation of information coding in the barn owl optic tectum

Location:\t Halls B-H

Presentation Time:\t Saturday, Nov 13, 2010, 1:00 PM - 2:00 ...

Circuit mechanisms of attention control

Animals and humans are subjected constantly to overwhelming barrage of information from the environment, while processing capacity of their nervous system is limited. To ...

Program#/Poster#:\t 197.16/WW11

Presentation Title:\t Cholinergic enhancement of visual representation in the owl optic tectum

Location:\t Hall A-C

Presentation time:\t Sunday, Nov 13, 2011, 11:00 AM ...

A primary function of the midbrain stimulus selection network is to compute the highest-priority location for attention and gaze. Here we report the contribution of a specific cholinergic circuit to this computation. We ...

Program#/Poster#:\t 665.11/KK29

Title:\t Bottom-up stimulus selection in the cholinergic isthmic nucleus in the Barn Owl

Location:\t Hall A-C

Presentation Time:\t Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008, 3:00 PM - 4:00 ...

Program#/Poster#:\t 758.15/AA14

Title:\t Periodic bursting of cholinergic neurons in the owl midbrain signals relative salience of sensory stimuli

Location:\t South Hall A

Presentation Time:\t Wednesday, ...

In addition to their well-known genomic effects via intracellular receptors, androgens rapidly alter neuronal excitability through a nongenomic pathway. The nongenomic effect of testosterone, as the main androgen, apart ...