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• n  the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus

• visual area

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• New theory of synapse formation in the brain
  ( Forschungszentrum Juelich ) The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. Jülich neuroinformatician Dr. Markus Butz has now been able to ascribe the formation of new neural networks in the visual cortex to a simple homeostatic rule. With this explanation, he and his colleague Dr. Arjen van Ooyen from Amsterdam also provide a new theory on the plasticity of the brain -- and a ...
  Oct. 10, 2013 - EurekAlert!