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Reduction of Plasticity in the Primary Visual Cortex of the Rat

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Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity

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The influence of the periphery on the structure and function of the representation field in the cerebral cortex has gained attention during the past century. Gudden (1870) investigated the visual cortex of rabbits which had been enucleated as neonatal animals, and found no changes in the cytoarchitectonic structure of the areas of the occipital lobes.

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Wree, A., Zilles, K., Schleicher, A. (1988). Reduction of Plasticity in the Primary Visual Cortex of the Rat. In: Flohr, H. (eds) Post-Lesion Neural Plasticity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73849-4_17

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