Directional Selectivity in Hamster Superior Colliculus Is Modified by Strobe-Rearing But Not by Dark-Rearing
- 3 March 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 199 (4332) , 998-1001
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.622583
Abstract
Visual response properties of superior collicular neurons of normal hamsters were compared with those of animals reared from birth to adulthood in either total darkness or with stroboscopic illumination. Directional selectivity was markedly reduced only in the strobe-reared animals, thus demonstrating visual plasticity in a system that develops apparently normally without visual experience.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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