Receptive fields in the body-surface map in adult cortex defined by temporally correlated inputs

By S. A. Clark, T. Allard, W. Jenkins, Michael M. Merzenich. 1988

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Cortical plasticity: from synapses to maps. (1998, methodology): “In addition to the syndactyly and skin island transfer experiments described above (Clark et al 1988, Merzenich et al 1990a, Allard et al 1991, Merzenich & Jenkins 1992), the importance of temporal correlations has also been tested directly using a behavioral training protocol.”
Evolutionary Psychology, Meet Developmental Neurobiology: Against Promiscuous Modularity (2000, background): “When the median nerve of the hand is severed in adult owl or squirrel monkeys, areas 3b and 1 in somatosensory cortex (areas that normally respond to medial nerve stimulation) begin almost immediately to respond to inputs from other nerves in the hand (Merzenich et al., 1983; see also Clark et al.,”
Defining functional areas in individual human brains using resting functional connectivity MRI (2008, background): “Organization at this scale is not limited to visual cortical regions, nor to topographically organized somatosensory (Clark et al., 1988) or auditory (Langers et al.”