Primary Recipient

VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$240,733.00

Award Date

9/21/2010

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Synapses in the cerebral cortex undergo dynamic alterations in their efficiency throughout life. In particular, the neurons of the primary visual cortex can use such synaptic plasticity to perform parallel computations on aspects of visual processing. Suc