Theory meets experiment: correlated neural activity helps determine ocular dominance column periodicity
Trends in NeurosciencesPublished 1 October 1995
Geoffrey J. Goodhill, Siegrid Löwel
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Novel experimental work demonstrates that the periodicity of ocular dominance columns is influenced by the temporal patterning of afferent activity, as predicted by recent theoretical work.
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The development of ocular dominance columns in primary visual cortex has attracted much interest from both experimentalists and theoreticians. One key parameter of these columns is their periodicity - it is thus important to understand how this is determined. Novel experimental work demonstrates that the periodicity is influenced by the temporal patterning of afferent activity, as predicted by recent theoretical work.
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