Interocular transfer of habits in cats after alternating monocular visual experience.

Abstract

"Fifteen kittens learned visual form discrimination habits either monocularly or binocularly after same-eye monocular, monocular alternating, or binocular early visual experience. A habit learned monocularly was not transferred to the other eye if the second eye had previously been exposed only to diffuse light. Previous monocular alternating pattern vision was found to be a sufficient antecedent condition for transfer of a habit learned monocularly." It is concluded that the form blindness preceding the early exposure to visual patterns is a function of the central neural organization of the visual system rather than a product of general motivational factors or reliance on other senses.