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Review
. 1994 Aug;4(4):535-44.
doi: 10.1016/0959-4388(94)90054-x.

Development, critical period plasticity, and adult reorganizations of mammalian somatosensory systems

D D O'Leary  1 , N L Ruff, R H Dyck
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Development, critical period plasticity, and adult reorganizations of mammalian somatosensory systems

D D O'Leary et al. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1994 Aug.

Abstract

This review covers recent progress in three major areas of investigation in somatosensory systems: development, developmental plasticity and functional reorganization. Important findings relate to the development of periphery-related patterning in thalamic afferents to somatosensory cortex, the controversial role of neural activity in the development and plasticity of periphery-related afferent patterning in the brainstem and cortex, experience-dependent reorganizations in adult somatosensory cortex, and the locus of these changes.

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