The basic wiring of the brain is first established before birth by using a variety of molecular guidance cues. These connections are then refined by patterns of neural activity, which are initially generated spontaneously and subsequently driven by sensory experience. In the superior colliculus, a m
How the visual projection map instructs the auditory computational map
β Scribed by Kaas, Jon H.; Hackett, Troy A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 60 KB
- Volume
- 421
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9967
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