Innate and environmental factors in the development of the kitten's visual cortex.

By Colin Blakemore, R. C. Van Sluyters. 1975

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• Development and plasticity of cortical areas and networks (2001, background): “1 ), although selectivity increases with visual experienc”
• The effects of early visual experience on the cat's visual cortex and their possible explanation by Hebb synapses. (1981, unknown): “After the initial controversial reports of Hubel & Wiesel (1963) and Barlow & Pettigrew (1971) it is now generally accepted that the visual cortex of very young, visually inexperienced kittens contains a certain proportion ofneurones with oriented receptive fields (Barlow, 1975; Blakemore & Van Sluy”
• Influence of experience on orientation maps in cat visual cortex (1999, background): “In very young kittens, less than half of the cells in area 17 are actually orientation biased or selectiv”