title: Filling-in versus filling-out: patterns of cortical short-term plasticity.
abstract: Investigations of topographic cortical plasticity following peripheral nervous injury predominantly report receptive field (RF) shifts toward the intact periphery. A recent study on visual cortex plasticity following retinal lesions by Botelho et al.[1] finds RF coverage of the lesion affected space when global retinotopic mapping strategies are used.
authors.affiliation: Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Deutschordenstraße 46, 60528 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Electronic address: michael.schmid@esi-frankfurt.de.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstraße 38, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. Electronic address: georgios.keliris@tuebingen.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Georgios A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Keliris
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D012160:Retina / Q000293:injuries*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*