Abstract

In this series of three lectures, I consider examples of how neural activity, initially spontaneously-generated and at later ages driven by sensory experience, contributes to the shaping and tuning of neural circuits during critical periods of brain development. The lectures focus on the development of the mammalian visual system and specifically consider the connections from retina to lateral geniculate nucleus to primary visual cortex. These connections begin to form early in life in utero ...

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