Visual Experience Modifies Distribution of Horizontally and Vertically Oriented Receptive Fields in Cats

By Helmut V. B. Hirsch, Donatella Spinelli. 1970

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Lifelong learning of human actions with deep neural network self-organization (2017, background): “A number of studies suggested that visual input is crucial for normal cortical organization, since the cortex tunes itself to the input distribution (Blakemore & Cooper, 1970; Blakemore & Van Sluyters, 1975; Hirsch & Spinelli, 1970; Sengpiel & Stawinski, 1999).”
Single Units and Sensation: A Neuron Doctrine for Perceptual Psychology? (1972, background): “First it was shown that kittens brought up with the two eyes exposed to different stimuli, one to vertical stripes, the other to horizontal, had a corresponding orientation selectivity of the receptive fields connected to each eye (Hirsch and Spinelli, 1970, 1971).”
Self-organization of orientation sensitive cells in the striate cortex (2004, background): “Such plasticity was demonstrated by experiments, in which the trigger features of visual cortical cells of young kitten could be determined in various ways by visual experience (Hirsch and Spinelli, 1970; Blakernore and Cooper, 1970; Blakemore and Mitchell, 1973).”
How does a brain build a cognitive code? (1980, methodology): “Hirsch and Spinelli (1970) performed experiments that did replicate in later experiments.”