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Kittens with lesions of the visual cortex and their normal littermates were tested on visual placing responses and two measures of activity. These Ss were also compared on a pattern discrimination with normal cats and cats with visual ablations. Ss that had sustained the operation as infants learned the pattern habit as well as normal adult cats, but removal of visual neocortex severely retarded the performance of adult SS.
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This investigation was supported by grant MH-06211 from the National Institutes of Health.
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Wetzel, A.B., Thompson, V.E., Horel, J.A. et al. Some consequences of perinatal lesions of the visual cortex in the cat. Psychon Sci 3, 381–382 (1965). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03343190
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