Cats Reared in Stroboscopic Illumination: Effects on Receptive Fields in Visual Cortex
- 1 May 1973
- journal article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 70 (5), 1353-1354
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.70.5.1353
Abstract
Cats were reared in a light-tight box in which the only source of illumination was a 9-musec strobe flash every 2 sec. This allowed them to experience visual form but they did not experience visual movement. Receptive-field properties of single units in area 17 of the visual cortex of cats reared in stroboscopic illumination (strobe-reared) were compared with properties of units in area 17 of normally reared cats. In strobe-reared cats both direction selectivity and orientation selectivity were greatly reduced relative to normally reared cats, and some units in the strobe-reared cats responded only to strobe flashes.Keywords
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