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Science 15 June 1973:
Vol. 180. no. 4091, pp. 1202 - 1203
DOI: 10.1126/science.180.4091.1202
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Kitten Visual Cortex: Short-Term, Stimulus-Induced Changes in Connectivity

J. Pettigrew 1, C. Olson 1, and H. B. Barlow 1

1 Department of Physiology-Anatomy, University of California, Berkeley 94720

Single neurons in the kitten visual cortex can be induced to increase their responsiveness to a repeated stimulus applied while the neurons are under observation. These short-term changes are in the same direction as the permanent modifications produced in whole populations of neurons following environmental manipulations during the "critical period" of cortical development, but are less pronounced and probably transient.


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