Does experience provide a permissive or instructive influence on the development of direction selectivity in visual cortex?

In principle, the development of sensory receptive fields in cortex could arise from experience-independent mechanisms that have been acquired through evolution, or through an online analysis of the sensory ex...

Source: Neural Development - July 12, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Arani Roy, Ian K. Christie, Gina M. Escobar, Jason J. Osik, Marjena Popovi ć, Neil J. Ritter, Andrea K. Stacy, Shen Wang, Jozsef Fiser, Paul Miller and Stephen D. Van Hooser Tags: Review Source Type: research