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Science 4 January 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5859, pp. 39 - 40
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153231
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Rules of Plasticity

Michael Brecht and Dietmar Schmitz

Ongoing sensory experience may improve performance through a signaling mechanism that strengthens synapses beyond their initial potential.

The authors are at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-University Berlin, 10115 Berlin, Germany. D. Schmitz is also at Neuroscience Research Center of the Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany. E-mail: michael.brecht{at}bccn-berlin.de

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