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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 4, 2419-2424, Copyright © 1984 by Society for Neuroscience

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Spatial contrast sensitivity of dark-reared cats with striate cortex lesions

S Lehmkuhle, SM Sherman and KE Kratz

We measured the spatial contrast sensitivity of two dark-reared cats before and after bilateral ablations of area 17 and parts of area 18. These lesions produced large deficits in the contrast sensitivity of both cats at intermediate and high spatial frequencies. This postoperative reduction in contrast sensitivity in dark-reared cats is relatively similar to the sensitivity deficits produced by the same cortical lesions in normally reared cats. However, both pre- and postoperatively, the normally reared cats exhibited contrast sensitivity that is clearly superior to that of the dark-reared cats. The results demonstrate both that striate cortex is significantly involved in the spatial contrast sensitivity of dark-reared cats and that dark rearing produces widespread deficits, independent of those in striate cortex, through much of the visual system.

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