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Neurons in the primary visual cortex of higher mammals respond best to light-dark borders at particular orientations. These orientation-specific responses are present at birth in the monkey (Hubel et al., 1977), and can be recorded by the end of the first postnatal week in the cat (Hubel and Wiesel, 1963; for review see Fregnac and Imbert, 1984). Since it is difficult to perform electrophysiological recordings in very young animals, we have chosen to study the development of oriented visual cortical responses in the ferret. The ferret visual system is quite similar to that of the cat (Law et al., 1988), but the ferret is born approximately three weeks earlier in development. (Linden et al., 1981).
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Chapman, B., Stryker, M.P. (1991). Development of Orientation-Specific Neuronal Responses in Ferret Primary Visual Cortex. In: Bagnoli, P., Hodos, W. (eds) The Changing Visual System. NATO ASI Series, vol 222. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3390-0_31
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