Cortical development: Binocular plasticity turned outside-in.
Classically, monocular deprivation leaves all layers of visual cortex dominated by the non-deprived eye. Unexpectedly, the changes first appear in the outer layers, not the central input layer. Do thalamocortical and corticocortical synapses differ in their plasticity and could the outer layers drive input plasticity?
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University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PT, UK. ian.thompson@physiol.ox.ac.uk
D000818:Animals; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology*; D015349:Vision, Monocular / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*