Selective Visual Experience Fails to Modify Receptive Field Properties of Rabbit Striate Cortex Neurons
- 20 April 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 180 (4083) , 320-323
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.180.4083.320
Abstract
During development, rabbits were exposed only to vertical or horizontal lines to determine if the receptive field characteristics of visual cortex cells would be altered as they are in the cat. Motion and directional selectivity were preserved, and orientation specificity remained unaffected by the restricted experience, which suggests that the rabbit may lack the neural plasticity seen in some other mammals.Keywords
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