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So much of our current knowledge about the neurophysiology of vision has come from studying the visual system of the cat. Using microelectrode techniques, neurophysiologists have examined in great detail the spatial properties of receptive fields of neurons at various levels of the feline nervous system, and headway is now being made in discovering the patterns of neural connections which give rise to the remarkable degree of stimulus selectivity characteristic of these neurons. This paper reviews the major findings concerning the visual system of the normal adult cat, from optics to visual cortex, and summarizes the physiological consequences of early visual deprivation on the visual nervous system of the cat. The review concludes with remarks about the validity of generalizing from cat neurophysiology to human vision.
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Hirsch, H. V. B., & Leventhal, A.X-cell and Y-cell influenced neurons in the cat’s visual cortex following pattern deprivation. Paper given at the meetings of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Florida, 1976.
Van Sluyters, R. C. Personal communication, 1978.
Enroth-Cugell, C. Personal communication, 1978.
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This paper was prepared while the author held a Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health (EY00106) and research grants from the National Science Foundation (BNS7817948) and the National Institutes of Health (EY01596).
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Blake, R. The visual system of the cat. Perception & Psychophysics 26, 423–448 (1979). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204283
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