PSYCHOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE FOR A MONOCULAR VISUAL-CORTEX IN STEREOBLIND HUMANS

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作者
BLAKE, R
CORMACK, RH
机构
[1] Cresap Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston
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10.1126/science.760194
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
Human observers who lack stereopsis reliably make eye-of-origin discriminations for grating patterns under conditions that render the performance of normal observers unreliable. This lends support to the view that stereoblind individuals possess proportions of monocular and binocular cortical cells similar to those of cats and monkeys deprived of early binocular visual experience. Copyright © 1979 AAAS.
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