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| Early
visual experience: |
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| Children or
chimps who receive only diffuse light input |
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childhood subsequently have difficulty in |
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| pattern
recognition. |
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| David Hubel and
Torsten Wiesel - won the Nobel prize for |
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| studies in the
70’s and 80’s on sensory
deprivation. |
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| They deprived animals of visual
input (by |
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| closing/suturing
the eyelid of one or both eyes) and |
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| analyzing the
consequences on visual cortical |
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| development and
visual behavior. |
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