Directional selectivity in hamster superior colliculus is modified by strobe-rearing but not by dark-rearing.
Visual response properties of superior collicular neurons of normal hamsters were compared with those of animals reared from birth to adulthood in either total darkness or with stroboscopic illumination. Directional selectivity was markedly reduced only in the strobe-reared animals, thus demonstrating visual plasticity in a system that develops apparently normally without visual experience.
D000200:Action Potentials; D000221:Adaptation, Ocular; D000818:Animals; D006224:Cricetinae / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D003623:Dark Adaptation; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D008647:Mesocricetus / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D013477:Superior Colliculi / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception