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The ocular dominance of cortical neurons in cats developed with divergent and convergent squint

  • U. Yinon*
  • , E. Auerbach
  • , M. Blank
  • , J. Friesenhausen
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Hadassah University Medical Centre
  • Ulm University

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Abstract

In five normal cats, 70.7% of the neurons recorded from the visual cortex responded to binocular stimulation; only 27.2% of the neurons in 12 cats raised with convergent squint and 63.6% of neurons in four cats with divergent squint displayed binocularity. In cats with convergent squint, 15% of the neurons showed normal receptive fields through one eye and nonconnected scattered receptive fields through the nondominant eye; however, movement detection, velocity discrimination and unidirectionality were retained. Furthermore, 65.2% of the monocular neurons were found to react through the normal eye and the rest through the squinting eye. While 1.7% of cortical neurons did not respond to any visual stimulus in normal cats, it was 3.9% in cats with convergent squint.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1251-1256
Number of pages6
JournalVision Research
Volume15
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1975
Externally publishedYes

Funding

Funders
DeutscherA kademischerA ustauchdiens
Stif-tung Volkswagenwerkt o E. Auerbach

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