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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