The effect of dark rearing on the time course of the critical period in cat visual cortex.

By G. Mower. 1991

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Critical Learning Periods in Deep Neural Networks (2017, background): “A similar effect has been observed in animals, where a period of early sensory deprivation (dark-rearing) can lengthen the critical period and thus cause less severe effects than those documented in light-reared animals (Mower, 1991).”
Adolescence as a neurobiological critical period for the development of higher-order cognition (2018, unknown): “dark rearing in cats (Mower, 1991), acoustic isolation in finches (Balmer et al.”
Critical period regulation. (2004, background): “See text for references. two days in kittens (Mower 1991) but fails to do so under anesthesia (Imamura & Kasamatsu 1991).”
Regulation of NMDA Receptor Subunit Expression and Its Implications for LTD, LTP, and Metaplasticity (2008, background): “For example, while dark-rearing delays both the onset of the critical period for ocular dominance plasticity (Mower, 1991b), and the developmental upregulation of the NR2A/NR2B ratio at layer 4 (Carmignoto and Vicini, 1992; Quinlan et al., 1999a), this manipulation does not delay the developmental…”
Development of pattern vision following early and extended blindness (2014, result): “Our findings corroborate studies in animals, demonstrating that visual development is experience dependent; critical periods can be extended through delayed exposure to light (41, 42).”