EXTENT OF RECOVERY FROM THE EFFECTS OF VISUAL DEPRIVATION IN KITTENS

IN KITTENS, deprivation of form and light over several months can lead to marked abnormalities in the visual pathway. These include behavioral blind-ness, morphological changes in the lateral geniculate body, and disruption of innately determined cortical connections (2, 6-8). This type of plasticity

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