Postnatal development of the visual cortex and the influence of environment

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Critical Learning Periods in Deep Neural Networks (2017, background): “They found that kittens monocularly blinded by lid suture in the ﬁrst 3 months after birth remained blind in the deprived eye, while no eﬀects were observed in adult cats subjected to analogous or more severe deﬁcits (4, 5).”
Child abuse and neglect and the brain--a review. (2000, background): “Experience-expectant development has been especially well studied in animals' visual cortex (e.g. Wiesel, 1982).”
Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities (2009, background): “Binocular occlusion produces perhaps even more extraordinary reorganization of the brain during an early critical period, as neurons in the would-be visual area respond not to light or visual stimuli, but to auditory and somatosensory stimuli instead (Purves, Augustine, et al., 2000; Wiesel, 1982).”
Effects of Hatchery Rearing on Brain Structures of Rainbow Trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (2004, background): “…captivity and subsequent domestication may alter brain phenotype over generations (Masai et al. 1982, Ishikawa et al. 1999), both classic (e.g., Wiesel 1982) and more recent studies in other animal models suggest that the monotony of the hatchery environment itself is likely to impact neural…”