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Different Developmental Strategies of the Telencephalic Commissures: A Comparison between the Ontogeneses of Visual Callosal Connections and of Olfactory Commissural Connections in Rodents

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In many areas of experimental biology new concepts receive so much attention from researchers in the field that they soon begin to be considered undoubted truths of universal value. In neuroscience, one such truism is the concept that the development of cortical connectivity necessarily employs a dual strategy in which a sequence of progressive events is followed by a sequence of regressive mechanisms that sculpt the final cortical hardware.

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Lent, R. (1992). Different Developmental Strategies of the Telencephalic Commissures: A Comparison between the Ontogeneses of Visual Callosal Connections and of Olfactory Commissural Connections in Rodents. In: Lent, R. (eds) The Visual System from Genesis to Maturity. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6726-8_10

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