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A new slant on the development of orientation selectivity

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High-resolution analysis of immature receptive fields in lateral geniculate neurons suggests that transient oriented receptive fields in the thalamus may contribute to the development of orientation selectivity in visual cortex.

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Figure 1: Receptive fields of cells of lateral geniculate nucleus and visual cortex.
Figure 2: Hebbian plasticity and the development of receptive fields.

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