Liam McCoy

2 months ago | elifesciences.org | Sean McCracken |Liam McCoy |Ziyi Hu |Julie Hodges

eLife Assessment This study provides important observations about the role of Hebbian synapse rewiring (which predicts that correlated activity between neurons begets stronger synapses) on brain connectivity development by examining a naturally emerging case where Hebbian predictions can be tested because neurons with differing activity undergo development under otherwise similar conditions (albino mouse lateral geniculate nucleus [LGN], where retinal ganglion cells [RGCs] from the...