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Wiring visual circuits, one eye at a time

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A study uses light-gated ion channels to control the activity of neurons in each eye, thereby revealing how the timing of neuronal firing dictates whether visual circuits segregate from one another or stay mixed.

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Figure 1: The timing of optogenetic stimulation instructs the architecture of visual circuits.

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  1. Rana N. El Danaf and Andrew D. Huberman are in the Department of Neurosciences, the Neurobiology Section in the Division of Biological Sciences and the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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