Cortical development: the sources of spontaneous patterned activity.
A recent study has found that spontaneous neural activity in the developing visual cortex has two distinct origins - local intracortical circuits and spontaneous activity in the retina.
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California Berkely, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA. mfeller@berkeley.edu
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