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… of studying how neural circuits in the brain’s visual cortex adapt to experience, MIT Professor Mark Bear ’s lab … Heading into the experiments described in a new paper in Cerebral Cortex, Bear and his team expected to confirm that … Article amblyopia , LTD , LTP , visual cortex , vision , cerebral cortex Print Share Related Articles MIT study shows …

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