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A Behavioural Technique for the Rapid Assessment of the Visual Capabilities of Kittens
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A behavioural method is described for the measurement of various visual spatial acuities in kittens as young as thirty days of age and applications are given of applications of the technique to measurement of the visual acuity for gratings in normal kittens.Abstract:
A behavioural method is described for the measurement of various visual spatial acuities in kittens as young as thirty days of age. Expamples are given of applications of the technique to measurement of the visual acuity for gratings in normal kittens as well as to studies of the time course of behavioural recovery from the effects of early monocular visual deprivation.read more
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The Topography of Vision in Mammals of Contrasting Life Style: Comparative Optics and Retinal Organisation
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Behavioral assessment of visual acuity in mice and rats.
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The rate of recovery of vision after early monocular deprivation in kittens
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TL;DR: A simple behavioural technique was used to assess the immediate effects of the period of monocular deprivation on the visual acuity of the deprived eye as well as the time course of any subsequent recovery.
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Visual resolution and receptive field size: examination of two kinds of cat retinal ganglion cell
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Physiological basis of anisometropic amblyopia.
Howard M. Eggers,Colin Blakemore +1 more
TL;DR: In the visual cortex of kittens that have received their only visual experience while wearing a high-power lens before one eye, most neurons are dominated by input from the normal eye, mimicking psychophysical results from human anisometropic amblyopes.
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Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex
David H. Hubel,Torsten N. Wiesel +1 more
TL;DR: This method is used to examine receptive fields of a more complex type and to make additional observations on binocular interaction and this approach is necessary in order to understand the behaviour of individual cells, but it fails to deal with the problem of the relationship of one cell to its neighbours.
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The period of susceptibility to the physiological effects of unilateral eye closure in kittens
David H. Hubel,Torsten N. Wiesel +1 more
TL;DR: Kittens were visually deprived by suturing the lids of the right eye for various periods of time at different ages to study the effect of monocular eye closure on the number of cells that can be influenced by the previously closed eye.
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Receptive fields of cells in striate cortex of very young, visually inexperienced kittens.
David H. Hubel,Torsten N. Wiesel +1 more
TL;DR: The purpose was to learn the age at which cortical cells have normal, adult-type receptive fields, and to find out whether such fields exist even in animals that have had no patterned visual stimulation.
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Innate and environmental factors in the development of the kitten's visual cortex.
Colin Blakemore,R C Van Sluyters +1 more
TL;DR: 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 finds that in deprived animals, there are a number of genuinely orientation selective cells.
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Consequences of monocular deprivation on visual behaviour in kittens
P. B. Dews,T. N. Wiesel +1 more
TL;DR: The normal and deprived eyes were compared using behavioural procedures which made graded demands on visual function.
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