ERC Advanced Grant · 2021
Patterns of Spontaneous Activity in the Assembly and Rewiring of Functional Sensory Circuits
It is commonly held that spontaneous activity in the immature brain prepares the neural circuits to process sensory information at the onset of experience. The best studied patterns of such activity are those observed postnatally in rodents, during stages that resemble the last months of gestation in humans. However, the features and functions of spontaneous activity at earlier stages, when the brain’s foundations are laid down and cortical areal identities are acquired, remain largely unknown. Here, I propose to develop an extensive and creative research program aimed at understanding the role of the patterns of spontaneous activity in the specification of sensory cortices and long-term…
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