Postnatal development of the visual cortex and the influence of environment

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The following is the lecture delivered by the author in Stockholm on 8 December 1981 when he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine, which he shared with Roger Sperry and David H. Hubel The article is published here with permission from the Nobel Foundation and will also be included in the complete volume of Les Prix Nobel en 1981 as well as in the series Nobel Lectures (in English) lished by Elsevier.

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