Binocularity in Kittens Reared with Optically Induced Squint
- 25 May 1979
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 204 (4395) , 875-877
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.441743
Abstract
The effects of conflicting visual images were studied without the confounding influences of oculomotor abnormalities: strabismus was simulated by rearing kittens with ophthalmic prisms before the eyes. After the animals had matured, the response properties of neurons in the visual cortex were studied. The proportion of binocularly excited neurons decreased; however, the extent of the ocular dominance alterations was related to the amount and direction of the prism-induced deviation.Keywords
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