10 Questions
What phenomenon is known as a result of monocular deprivation?
Ocular dominance plasticity
How did the experimental approach of creating artificial strabismus differ from monocular deprivation?
Equal responsiveness through both eyes
What was surgically achieved in kittens to create artificial strabismus?
Cutting one of the muscles around the eyeball
What effect did the strabismus treatment have on binocular receptive fields from neurons in layer 2/3?
Eradicated them more or less
What did the work from Wolf Singer's lab show in relation to monocular deprivation in kittens?
Blocked NMDA receptors prevented ocular dominant shift
Which mechanism was found to be relied upon during the deprivation-dependent plasticity process?
Hebbian mechanisms
What led to the equal responsiveness through both eyes in the artificial strabismus treatment?
Each eye delivering equal amounts of activity
'Like monocular deprivation, the strabismus treatment more or less eradicated ______ from layer 2/3 neurons.' Fill in the blank.
binocular receptive fields
'That activity was just not correlated between the two eyes.' What does 'that activity' refer to?
Binocular receptive fields activity
'In contrast to monocular deprivation, strabismus led to equal responsiveness through the two eyes as each eye was delivering equal amounts of activity.' What does 'equal responsiveness' refer to?
Similar levels of response from both eyes
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