Self-produced locomotion restores visual capacity after striate lesions.
Rats permitted unrestrained movement in a patterned visual environment during the interval between two-stage vilateral lesions of the visual cortex reacquire a preoperatively learned pattern discrimination. Rats passively transported through the identical visual environment do not. This is the first demonstration that interoperative self-produced locomotion is essential for recovery of function in the visual system.
D000818:Animals; D002541:Cerebral Decortication; D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005556:Form Perception; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D051381:Rats; D012683:Sensory Deprivation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*