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BLINDNESS AND MODIFICATION OF ASSOCIATION CORTEX BY EARLY BINOCULAR DEPRIVATION IN MONKEYS
Author(s) -
HYVÄRINEN J.,
HYVÄRINEN L.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
child: care, health and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.832
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1365-2214
pISSN - 0305-1862
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.1979.tb00142.x
Subject(s) - association (psychology) , blindness , neuroscience , visual cortex , cortex (anatomy) , binocular vision , psychology , sensory deprivation , medicine , optometry , psychotherapist , sensory system , computer science , artificial intelligence
Summary Cells in the parietal association area of stumptail monkeys did not respond to visual stimuli after binocular early deprivation. Although the monkeys responded to stimuli in the visual cortex, behaviourally they were blind. The importance of encouraging babies and infants to use all residual vision is stressed, so that the representation of visual input in the brain does not become permanently overtaken by other modalities