How the mechanisms of long-term synaptic potentiation and depression serve experience-dependent plasticity in primary visual cortex

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1633, 2014, Pages

  Cooke, Sam F ^a   Bear, Mark F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cognition; Neuroscience; Physiology

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; LEARNING; NEUROLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; RODENT; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

CORDEAUXIA EDULIS; RODENTIA;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; MONOCULAR VISION; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STIMULUS-SELECTIVE RESPONSE POTENTIATION; THALAMUS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AMBLYOPIA; LONG-TERM DEPRESSION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MONOCULAR DEPRIVATION; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; STIMULUS-SELECTIVE RESPONSE POTENTIATION;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; LEARNING; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; THALAMUS; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84888782295     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0284     Document Type: Review

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