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SUBMITTER: Roy A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6940391 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roy Arani A Wang Shen S Meschede-Krasa Benyamin B Breffle Jordan J Van Hooser Stephen D SD
Nature communications 20200102 1
While early experience with moving stimuli is necessary for the development of direction selectivity in visual cortex of carnivores, it is unclear whether experience exerts a permissive or instructive influence. To test if the specific parameters of the experienced stimuli could instructively sculpt the emergent responses, visually naive ferrets were exposed to several hours of experience with unusual spatiotemporal patterns. In the most immature ferrets, cortical neurons developed selectivity t ...[more]