Timothy S. Balmer

ORCID: 0000-0002-8864-5465 · 1 paper in corpus · active 2018
2018
TrkB Activation During a Critical Period Mimics the Protective Effects of Early Visual Experience on Perception and the Stability of Receptive Fields in Adult Superior Colliculus
·doi:10.1101/435784

During a critical period in development, spontaneous and evoked retinal activity shape visual pathways in an adaptive fashion. Interestingly, spontaneous activity is sufficient for spatial refinement of visual receptive fields in superior c…