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Development of blobs in the visual cortex of macaques

D Purves1, A LaMantia

  • 1Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710.

Summary

The primary visual cortex (V1) area grows by 16% from birth to adulthood in rhesus monkeys. Despite a decrease in blob density, the total number of V1 blobs remains stable, indicating no loss of neural circuitry.

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