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Alicja Puścian1, Hadas Benisty2, Michael J Higley2

  • 1Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Nencki-EMBL Partnership for Neural Plasticity and Brain Disorders - BRAINCITY, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Pasteur 3 Street, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.

Cell Reports
|July 30, 2020
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Summary

Primary visual cortex (V1) neurons develop accurate behavioral representations during learning, not inherent to V1. This plasticity requires NMDA-type glutamate receptors for visual task performance.

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behaviorcalciumcircuitseyeblinkimaginginterneuronlearningplasticityvision

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