Single-unit responses to natural objects in area 19 of cats with different early visual experiences.
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Cats deprived of pattern vision with hoods and normal cats were used. During the first 3 months of life some hood-reared cats had visual experience with a three-dimensional cross or a ping-pong ball. Recording were performed in adult cats with a pretrigeminal brainstem transection. Unit responses to the cross and the ball were recorded in area 19 within the projection of area centralis. Stimulus-dominance of the exposed object was manifested weakly. Both exposed and control objects activated more units in the experienced hood-reared cats than in hood-reared and normal controls. Compared with previous finding, the present results indicated that early visual experience affects area 19 differently than areas 17 and 18.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Acta neurobiologiae experimentalis
دوره 35 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1975