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PMID: 1151843 Published · ppublish English Journal Article

Innate and environmental factors in the development of the kitten's visual cortex.

The Journal of physiology ·Vol. 248 ·No. 3 ·1975-07-00 ·Pages 663-716

Blakemore C, Van Sluyters RC

Abstract

1. This is a study of the receptive fields of 771 cells recorded in the visual cortex of twenty-five kittens reared normally or subjected to various kinds of visual deprivation or environmental manipulation. 2. Kittens deprived of patterned visual experience, by dark rearing or diffuse occlusion of the eyes, have a majority of cirtical neurones with little or no specificity for the orientation or axis of movement of visual stimuli. However, in such deprived animals, especially those younger than 3 weeks, there are a number of genuinely orientation selective cells. They are broadly "turned" (by adult standards), they are almost always of the simple type, are heavily dominated by one eye, and are found mainly in the deeper layers of the cortex, especially layer IV. 3...

MeSH Terms
Action Potentials Age Factors Animals Cats Environment, Controlled Models, Neurological Neurons/physiology Photic Stimulation Sensory Deprivation Visual Cortex/anatomy & histology,growth & development,physiology
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Blakemore C
Van Sluyters R C
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Article Info
Journal
The Journal of physiology
Abbr.
J Physiol
ISSN
0022-3751
DOI
10.1113/jphysiol.1975.sp010995
Published
1975-07-00
Pages
663-716
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
0266262
PMCID
PMC1309546
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1975.sp010995 PMC Full Text View journal details
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