Higher brain functions served by the lowly rodent primary visual cortex

It has been more than 50 years since the first description of ocular dominance plasticity-the profound modification of primary visual cortex (V1) following temporary monocular deprivation. This discovery immediately attracted the intense interest of neurobiologists focused on the general question of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gavornik, Jeffrey, Bear, Mark
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112111
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8420-8973