Cortical effects of daily sequential stimulation of right and left eyes in the kitten

摘要

Beginning near the peak of the sensitive period to monocular deprivation, kittens were reared in darkness except for daily sessions during which the left eye was exposed first followed immediately by an equal amount of right eye exposure. The notion was that the sequence of stimulation may be an important determinant in cortical representation of each eye. Although study of single neurons in area 17 showed that nearly all cells were monocular, no systematic imbalance was found in the numbers of units controlled by each eye.