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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1134–1136 (1 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/nn1965

Experience-dependent recovery of vision following chronic deprivation amblyopia

Hai-Yan He , Baisali Ray , Katie Dennis & Elizabeth M Quinlan

The shift in ocular dominance induced by brief monocular deprivation is greatest during a postnatal critical period and is thought to decline irreversibly thereafter. However, here we demonstrate that complete visual deprivation through dark exposure restores rapid ocular dominance plasticity in adult rats.