Local Order within Global Disorder: Synaptic Architecture of Visual Space
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Channel: Cell Press · 2017 · Science & Technology
For more information, see Scholl et al., Neuron 96/5, http://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(17)30985-6. Fitzpatrick and colleagues find that synaptic inputs in the visual cortex are locally—but not globally—organized. This local functional synaptic clustering applies to a diverse set of inputs and appears to be a fundamental principle of dendritic organization. Future work should reveal more about the source of these clustered inputs and how clusters arise during the development of neural circuits.
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