Self-Produced Locomotion Restores Visual Capacity After Striate Lesions
- 24 January 1975
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 187 (4173) , 265-266
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1111102
Abstract
Rats permitted unrestrained movement in a patterned visual environment during the interval between two-stage bilateral lesions of the visual cortex reacquire a preoperatively learned pattern discrimination. Rats passively transported through the identical visual environment do not. This is the first demonstration that interoperative self-produced locomotion is essential for recovery of function in the visual system.Keywords
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