Concomitant strabismus and cortical eye dominance in young rhesus monkeys.
Optical dissociation of the visual images produces a loss of binocular cells at the striate cortex. Young monkeys wearing base-in prisms lose 50 per cent of their cortical binocular cells within 30 days. Exposure to visually redundant stimulation inside a striped cylinder while wearing the dissociating prisms does not prevent the loss of binocular cells. Once lost, a subsequent period of normal binocular viewing experience up to 3 months in duration does not result in significant recovery of binocular cells.
D000818:Animals; D002452:Cell Count; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013285:Strabismus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000503:physiopathology*