The effect of a unilateral ablation of the occipital lobe on pattern discrimination in the rabbit.
Binocular brightness and striated pattern discrimination were studied in Dutch-belted rabbits. A comparison was made between normal animals and animals in which a unilateral lesion of the occipital lobe had been made three months after birth. No difference between the two groups was found in brightness discrimination learning. However, normal animals were found to do better both in acquisition and accuracy of striated pattern discrimination.
D000818:Animals; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology