A Simple Rule for Dendritic Spine and Axonal Bouton Formation Can Account for Cortical Reorganization after Focal Retinal Lesions
Figure 14
No functional network reorganization in terms of remapping of input representations occurs for the case with ,
and the case with
,
.
While the first case (A) is trivial because the neurons do not recover at all, the second case (B) is in so far remarkable that rewiring brings the activity back to the high set-point but does not give rise to functional remapping. Even in the late phase, the neurons in the LPZ, apart from a few neurons at the rim, do not become responsive to adjacent input. Cf. Fig. 8 for color code. Note the color gradients from top to the bottom for all six columns of the three panels in A and B.