Cortical circuits are shaped by sensory experience. These changes have now been visualized with single-synapse resolution in vivo, revealing clustered potentiation along stretches of dendrite.
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Wiegert, J., Oertner, T. Neighborly synapses help each other out. Nat Neurosci 18, 326–327 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3955
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