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Development of Specific Neuronal Connections
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Selective stabilisation of developing synapses as a mechanism for the specification of neuronal networks.
TL;DR: The alternative proposed in this article is that connections are genetically specified between classes of cells, but the final wiring pattern depends on the refinement of those collections by selective stabilisation during neuronal activity.
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An autoradiographic analysis of the time of appearance of neurons in the developing chick neural retina.
TL;DR: The present data are consistent with those proposals that relate the cessation of mitotic activity of neuroepithelial cells to the determination of neuronal size, axon length, and the specification of neuronal connections on the mouse, killifish, and toad.
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Trying to Fix the Development in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology@@@The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a hybrid approach to evolution and development, pointing out that though underlying assumptions held by evolutionary and developmental psychologists have been at odds, each field has much to offer the other.
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The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
TL;DR: The authors point out that an evolutionary-developmental perspective allows one to view gene-environment interactions, the significance of individual differences, and the role of behaviour and development in evolution in much greater depth.
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The role of immaturity in human development.
TL;DR: The possibility that infants' and young children's immature behaviors and cognitions are sometimes adaptive is explored and interpreted in terms of evolutionary theory in this paper, where it is argued that developmental immaturity had an adaptive role in evolution and continues to have an adaptive roles in human development.
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Single-cell responses in striate cortex of kittens deprived of vision in one eye.
Torsten N. Wiesel,David H. Hubel +1 more
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Chemoaffinity in the Orderly Growth of Nerve Fiber Patterns and Connections
TL;DR: The hypothesis, 18-24 in brief, suggested that the patterning of synaptic connections in the nerve centers must be handled instead by the growth mechanism directly, independently of function, and with very strict selectivity governing synaptic formation from the beginning.
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Comparison of the effects of unilateral and bilateral eye closure on cortical unit responses in kittens
Torsten N. Wiesel,David H. Hubel +1 more
TL;DR: In these experiments the use of monocular deprivation made it possible to compare adjacent geniculate layers, and also to compare the two eyes in their ability to influence cortical cells, so that each animal acted, in a sense, as its own control.
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Binocular interaction in striate cortex of kittens reared with artificial squint.
David H. Hubel,Torsten N. Wiesel +1 more
TL;DR: The object of the present study was to influence cortical connections by some means less drastic than covering one or both eyes, and produced a divergent strabismus by cutting one of the extraocular muscles in each of four newborn kittens.
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Effects of visual deprivation on morphology and physiology of cells in the cat's lateral geniculate body
Torsten N. Wiesel,David H. Hubel +1 more
TL;DR: Single-unit recordings in the optic tract and lateral geniculate body of kittens in which one eye had been deprived of vision are described, and an anatomical examination of the visual pathways in these animals are examined.