The indirect somato-visual pathway and its role in cross-modal plasticity after visual deprivation in the mouse KU Leuven
One of the best-studies examples of experience- and age- dependent modifications of neuronal circuits in the brain is ocular dominance plasticity. Although it is responsible for the reactivation of the binocular visual cortex after the loss of one eye, it does not explain the recovery of the simultaneously deprived monocular zone. In our mouse model we were able to prove that reactivation of the monocular zone is caused by cross-modal ...