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Science 13 August 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 3997, pp. 638 - 641
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.3997.638
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Shift in Binocular Disparity Causes Compensatory Change in the Cortical Structure of Kittens

Robert Shlaer 1

1 Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Kittens were raised with prisms in front of their eyes which introduced a vertical disparity. At 4 months of age the disparity necessary to maximally stimulate a sample of binocular cortical cells was determined. The distribution of optimal disparities was abnormal, and shifted in a direction which would tend to compensate for the prism-induced disparity.


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