Development of the Brain depends on the Visual Environment

By Colin Blakemore, G. Cooper. 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).”
Cardinal rules: Visual orientation perception reflects knowledge of environmental statistics (2011, unknown): “, and that early visual deprivation affects neural orientation sensitivity in kitten”
Influence of experience on orientation maps in cat visual cortex (1999, methodology): “Three different approaches have been used to address this question: rearing animals in striped cylinder”
Cognitron: A self-organizing multilayered neural network (1975, background): “Blakemore and Cooper (1970) reared kittens in an abnormal environment consisting entirely of black-and-white stripes of one orientation.”
SiT: Self-supervised vIsion Transformer (2021, background): “This is suggested by the early plasticity experiments on kittens [23], [24] which support the argument that some important aspect of visual perception are acquired through learning and visual experiences.”
Self-organization of orientation sensitive cells in the striate cortex (2004, background): “This may be taken as a special case of learning in early development such as the "learning" of binocularity (Wiesel and Hubel, 1965) or orientation tuning (Blakemore and Cooper, 1970).”
Development of Orientation Preference Maps in Ferret Primary Visual Cortex (1996, unknown): “…et al., 1978) that the plasticity of orientation preference that seems to occur after restricted early visual experience with oriented contours (Blakemore and Cooper, 1970) is in fact attributable to selective orientation-dependent losses in responsiveness of single cells rather than genuine…”
Rethinking infant knowledge: toward an adaptive process account of successes and failures in object permanence tasks. (1997, background): “For example, animals exposed to horizontal lines alone seem blind--both behaviorally and physiologically--to vertical lines, and vice versa ( Blakemore & Cooper, 1970; Hirsch & Spinelli, 1970), and animals exposed to lines moving in one direction show greatest sensitivity to lines moving in that di”
Development and plasticity of cortical areas and networks (2001, background): “Rearing kittens in a visual environment consisting of alternating black and white stripes restricts pattern vision, and seems to shift the orientation preference of cortical cells towards the experienced orientatio”
Mechanisms for Stable, Robust, and Adaptive Development of Orientation Maps in the Primary Visual Cortex (2013, background): “, 2001), striped environments (Blakemore and Cooper, 1970; Sengpiel et al., 1999), or oriented blurring via goggle rearing (Tanaka et al.”
A Structured Model of Video Reproduces Primary Visual Cortical Organisation (2009, unknown): “development [1–6].”
Single Units and Sensation: A Neuron Doctrine for Perceptual Psychology? (1972, background): “This was confirmed in kittens exposed only to vertically or horizontally striped environments; these had no neurons sensitive to horizontally or vertically oriented stimuli respectively (Blakemore and Cooper, 1970).”