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Prior experience enhances plasticity in adult visual cortex

Sonja B Hofer1, Thomas D Mrsic-Flogel, Tobias Bonhoeffer

  • 1Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie, Am Klopferspitz 18, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany.

Nature Neuroscience
|December 6, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Adult mice show enhanced brain plasticity after early-life sensory changes. Prior experience with monocular deprivation (MD) primes the visual cortex for faster, more persistent adaptation to later sensory alterations.

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