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The adult central nervous system can be thought of as a device for the ‘adaptive structuration’ of an animal’s environment. The pattern of neuronal connectivity, which develops through genetic and experience-dependent processes, is one of the factors that determines an animal’s perception of the surrounding world. It is not surprising, therefore, that the connectivity pattern of the mammalian brain as well as the developmental mechanisms that give rise to this pattern are among the most studied areas of neurobiology.
This chapter to be cited as: Kind, P., and Innocenti, G. M., The development of cortical projections, in: “Systems Approaches to Developmental Neurobiology,” P. A. Raymond, S. S. Easter, Jr., and G. M. Innocenti, eds., Plenum Press, New York.
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Kind, P., Innocenti, G. (1990). The Development of Cortical Projections. In: Raymond, P.A., Easter, S.S., Innocenti, G.M. (eds) Systems Approaches to Developmental Neurobiology. NATO ASI Series, vol 192. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7281-3_12
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