Connect or reject: Extensive rewiring builds binocular...
Scientists have long known that the brain’s visual system isn’t fully hardwired from the start — it becomes refined by what babies see — but the authors of a new MIT study still weren’t prepared for the degree of rewiring they observed when they took a first-ever look at the process in mice as it happened in real-time. As the researchers in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory tracked hundreds of “spine” structures housing individual network connections, or...
