MOUSE VISION AS A GATEWAY FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW EXPERIENCE SHAPES NEURAL CIRCUITS

Genetic programs controlling ontogeny drive many of the essential connectivity patterns within the brain. Yet it is activity, derived from the experience of interacting with the world, that sculpts the precise circuitry of the central nervous system. Such experience-dependent plasticity has been obs...

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Main Authors: Nicholas ePriebe, Aaron W McGee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncir.2014.00123/full