The Period of Susceptibility to the Physiological Effects of Unilateral Eye Closure in Kittens.¶
Hubel, D. H., & Wiesel, T. N. (1970). The Period of Susceptibility to the Physiological Effects of Unilateral Eye Closure in Kittens. The Journal of Physiology, 419-436.
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Primes¶
- Critical Period
- Developmental neuroscience: monocular deprivation during the visual cortex's critical period produces permanent amblyopia while the same deprivation in adulthood has no effect; native-grammar acquisition is gated to a window roughly from birth to puberty; filial imprinting is a sharp few-hour version of the same structure.
This sourceEstablishes the visual-cortex critical period: monocular deprivation during a bounded postnatal window (susceptibility begins ~week 4, declines after weeks 6–8, gone by ~month 3) causes permanent ocular-dominance shifts/amblyopia, while year-long deprivation in an adult cat produces no effect.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Hubel & Wiesel 1970 supplies the bounded postnatal susceptibility window and the adult no-effect result in cat striate cortex, but says nothing about grammar acquisition or imprinting.
“Susceptibility to the effects of eye closure begins suddenly near the start of the fourth week, remains high until some time between the sixth and eighth weeks, and then declines, disappearing finally around the end of the third month. Monocular closure for over a year in an adult cat produces no detectable effects.”
- Developmental neuroscience: monocular deprivation during the visual cortex's critical period produces permanent amblyopia while the same deprivation in adulthood has no effect; native-grammar acquisition is gated to a window roughly from birth to puberty; filial imprinting is a sharp few-hour version of the same structure.
Domain-specific¶
- Neuroplasticity
- The decisive control was timing — the very same deprivation imposed on an adult cat produced little lasting reorganisation
This sourceKitten monocular-deprivation study showing a susceptibility window from about the fourth week to the end of the third month, with a year of closure in an adult cat producing no detectable cortical effects.
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“Susceptibility to the effects of eye closure begins suddenly near the start of the fourth week, remains high until some time between the sixth and eighth weeks, and then declines, disappearing finally around the end of the third month.”
- The decisive control was timing — the very same deprivation imposed on an adult cat produced little lasting reorganisation
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