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Cortical Development, Plasticity and Dynamics
Plasticity, or the adaptive response of the brain to changes in inputs, is essential to brain development and function. The developing brain requires a genetic blueprint but is also acutely sensitive to the environment. The adult brain constantly adapts to changes in stimuli, and this plasticity is manifest not only as learning and memory but also as dynamic changes in information transmission and processing. The goal of the Sur laboratory is to understand long-term plasticity and short-term dynamics in networks of the developing and adult cortex.
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Recent News

" Big MIT contingent at Society for Neuroscience
meeting, "
MIT News, October 31, 2007.

" MIT IDs binocular vision gene, " MIT News,
September 13, 2007.

"Feature Maps in the Ferret Visual Cortex, " The
Journal of Neuroscience 27:i, 2007.

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