Shift in binocular disparity causes compensatory change in the cortical structure of kittens.
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.
D000221:Adaptation, Ocular; D000818:Animals; D001369:Axons / Q000502:physiology; D002415:Cats; D007909:Lenses; D008027:Light; D009417:Nerve Tissue / Q000502:physiology; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception