Learning to see again: biological constraints on cortical plasticity and the implications for sight restoration technologies

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  bioRxiv

• Publication date

  2017-03-09

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Physics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1088/1741-2552/aa795ePMID 28612755PMCID PMC5953572
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