Brain Clears the Way for Binocular Vision Even Before Eyes Are Open – Duke Today

DURHAM, N.C. – To prepare the brain for binocular vision and depth perception, first you have to take out some of the chandeliers.
That’s the takeaway from a group of neurobiologists who studied the development of binocular vision in the mouse brain. They discovered that chandelier cells, so-named because they have many long extensions that control the firing of hundreds of excitatory pyramidal neurons and resemble a chandelier light fixture, are selectively removed from the developing mouse visual…

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