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Science 15 May 1970:
Vol. 168. no. 3933, pp. 869 - 871
DOI: 10.1126/science.168.3933.869
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Visual Experience Modifies Distribution of Horizontally and Vertically Oriented Receptive Fields in Cats

Helmut V. B. Hirsch 1 and D. N. Spinelli 2

1 Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
2 Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University

Cats were raised from birth with one eye viewing horizontal lines and one eye viewing vertical lines. Elongated receptive fields of cells in the visual cortex were horizontally or vertically oriented—no oblique fields were found. Units with horizontal fields were activated only by the eye exposed to horizontal lines; units with vertical fields only by the eye exposed to vertical lines.


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