Cortical development: A progressive and selective mesh, with or without constructivism

Author(s): Dehay, C.

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1997; 20: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 570.

Abstract: A credible account of the neurobiology underlying cognitive development cannot afford to ignore the recently demonstrated innate regionalisation of the neocortex as well as the ontogeny of corticocortical phenomena, only for the latter does the timing of development permit control by external events and this is most likely to occur at later stages in the fine tuning of cortical microcircuitry.

Note: Editorial Kennedy H, Inserm, U371, F-69675 Bron, FRANCE

Keyword(s): VISUAL-CORTEX; SPECIFICATION; PATHWAYS; MONKEY; CAT; ENUCLEATION; PROJECTION; PATTERNS; NEURONS; PRIMATE

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