Essential role for a long-term depression mechanism in ocular dominance plasticity

The classic example of experience-dependent cortical plasticity is the ocular dominance (OD) shift in visual cortex after monocular deprivation (MD). The experimental model of homosynaptic long-term depression (LTD) was originally introduced to study the mechanisms that could account for deprivation...

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Main Authors: Yoon, Bong-June, Smith, Gordon B., Heynen, Arnold J., Neve, Rachael L., Bear, Mark
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52414
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3854-5968