A surge in brain connections fine-tunes visual responses within days of eyes opening, study finds

Our brain's wiring is shaped both by genes and what we experience, and the visual system is a great model for studying how the two work together. Before the eyes ever open, genetic programs lay down a first draft of the brain's visual circuits. But once they open, experience takes over, with visual information refining the initial draft.

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