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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2010 Jan 28;65(2):246. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.01.002

Figure 8. Comparison between ocular dominance plasticity and binocular matching of orientation preference.

Figure 8

(A) OD remains the same throughout normal development (top panel). The colored bars represent response magnitude through the two eyes, with red for contralateral (C) and blue for ipsilateral eye (I). MD (second panel), but not DR (third panel), during the critical period induces a shift in OD. OD can also be shifted by MD in adult mice (bottom panel). The diagrams of MD-and Adult-MD-induced OD plasticity follow Sato and Stryker (2008). (B) Binocular matching of preferred orientations is established during the critical period under normal development (top panel). Binocular cells acquire basic properties of orientation tuning by the onset of critical period (top panel). The colored curves represent the orientation tuning of individual neurons. The orientation tuning properties are presumed to be immature at the time of eye-opening according to studies in other species. Both MD (second panel) and DR (third panel) during the critical period disrupt the binocular matching, while adult MD has no such effect on the matching (bottom panel).