A new role for visual experience in top-down cortical development

Matthew T Colonnese; Yasunobu Murata; Marnie A Phillips

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2021.10.012

A new role for visual experience in top-down cortical development

Neuron. 2021 Nov 3;109(21):3400-3401. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.10.012.

Authors

Matthew T Colonnese¹, Yasunobu Murata², Marnie A Phillips²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA. Electronic address: colonnese@gwu.edu.
² Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA.

PMID: 34735791
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.10.012

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Ibrahim et al. (2021) examine the rules by which top-down connections are made on visual cortical layer 1 interneurons, discovering activity-dependent cooperative interactions with visual input that are specific to neurogliaform cells and anterior cingulate cortex.

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MeSH terms

Gyrus Cinguli
Interneurons*
Neurons
Visual Cortex*