BINOCULARITY IN KITTENS REARED WITH OPTICALLY INDUCED SQUINT

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作者
SMITH, EL [1 ]
BENNETT, MJ [1 ]
HARWERTH, RS [1 ]
CRAWFORD, MLJ [1 ]
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[1] UNIV TEXAS,GRAD SCH BIOMED SCI,CTR SENSORY SCI,HOUSTON,TX 77025
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10.1126/science.441743
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
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. Copyright © 1979 AAAS.
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