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Neural construction: Two and a half cheers for Quartz & Sejnowski!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Dale Purves
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 purves@neuro.duke.edu www.neuro.duke.edu/faculty/purves/purves.htm

Abstract

A wealth of evidence supports the idea that the circuitry of the developing nervous system is gradually elaborated under the instructive influence of neural activity. Some care must be taken, however, not to handicap the acceptance of this useful perspective with too onerous a theoretical superstructure.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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