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 (Author), Smith, Gordon B. (Author), Heynen, Arnold J. (Author), Neve, Rachael L. (Contributor), Bear, Mark (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences, 2010-03-09T15:51:06Z.
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