THEORY MEETS EXPERIMENT - CORRELATED NEURAL ACTIVITY HELPS DETERMINE OCULAR DOMINANCE COLUMN PERIODICITY

The development of ocular dominance columns in primary visual cortex h as attracted much interest from both experimentalists and theoretician s. One key parameter of these columns is their periodicity - it is thu s important to understand how this is determined. Novel experimental w ork demonstrates that the periodicity is influenced by the temporal pa tterning of afferent activity, as predicted by recent theoretical work .