The importance of movement to the developing visual system.
Cats reared under stroboscopic conditions (frequency 2 Hz; duration 0.2 ms), when only a series of "frozen" retinal images is received and the neural channels responsible for movement analysis are put into competitive disadvantage, show severe deficits in the proportion of direction-selective cells in areas 17 and 18 and markedly abnormal optokinetic nystagmus responses.
D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D004594:Electrophysiology; D009068:Movement; D009760:Nystagmus, Physiologic; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology