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CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 451-459Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2006.06.007
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Ocular dominance plasticity has long served as a. successful model for examining how cortical circuits are shaped by experience. In this paradigm, altered retinal activity caused by unilateral eye-lid closure leads to dramatic shifts in the binocular response properties of neurons in the visual cortex. Much of the recent progress in identifying the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying ocular dominance plasticity has been achieved by using the mouse as a model system. In this species, monocular deprivation initiated in adulthood also causes robust ocular dominance shifts. Research on ocular dominance plasticity in the mouse is starting to provide insight into which factors mediate and influence cortical plasticity in juvenile and adult animals.
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