What are the effects of severe visual impairment on the cortical organization and connectivity of primary visual cortex?

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2009, Pages

  Larsen, DeLaine D ^a   Luu, Julie D ^a   Burns, Marie E ^a   Krubitzer, Leah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticocortical; Crossmodal; Plasticity; Thalamocortical; Transducin; V1

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650176447     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.05.030.2009     Document Type: Article

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