Sensory areas of adult cerebral cortex can reorganize in response to long-term alterations in
patterns of afferent signals. This long-term plasticity is thought to play a crucial role in …

The cerebral cortex has long been known to play a central role in the storage and retrieval of
long-term memories. Therefore it would be expected that mechanisms of cortical plasticity …

1. Receptive field (RF) sizes of neurons in adult primary visual cortex are dynamic,
expanding and contracting in response to alternate stimulation outside and within the RF …

Many psychophysical experiments on perceptual learning in humans show increases of
performance that are most probably based on functions of early visual cortical areas. Long …

Immediately after focal retinal lesions, receptive fields (RFs) in primary visual cortex expand
considerably, even when the retinal damage is limited to the photoreceptor layer. The time …

There is growing evidence of significant plasticity in neuronal receptive fields and functional
architecture in adult primary sensory cortex. Surgical lesions or rewiring of nerves in the …

Experience-dependent plasticity of visual cortical receptive fields (RFs) involves synaptic
modifications in the underlying neural circuits, but the site and mechanism of these …

Recent studies on the response properties of neurons in primary visual cortex emphasize
the dynamics and the complexities of facilitatory and suppressive interactions between the …

FAST associative cellular plasticity of visual cortical cells has been shown in vitro with
electrical stimulation as well as in vivo by pairing of natural stimuli with artificial …

Receptive fields in primary visual cortex have been shown to be capable of rapid expansion
and contraction when exposed to an artificial scotoma, a masked segment of the visual field …