Comment on "Emergence of Novel Color Vision in Mice Engineered to Express a Human Cone Photopigment"
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- 12 October 2007
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 318 (5848) , 196
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1146084
Abstract
Jacobs et al . (Reports, 23 March 2007, p. 1723) reported that plasticity in the mammalian visual system permitted the emergence of “a new dimension of sensory experience” in mice genetically engineered to express a human long-wavelength–sensitive cone photopigment. However, neither neural plasticity nor a new dimension of sensory experience is required to explain their results.Keywords
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