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SELECTIVE exposure of kittens to periodic gratings during the early period of life produces a depression of neural responses to gratings of the same or similar spatial frequency1. Recently we have found that in these kittens also the behavioural contrast sensitivity is depressed at the spatial frequency of exposure (A.F. and L.M., in preparation).
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MAFFEI, L., FIORENTINI, A. Monocular deprivation in kittens impairs the spatial resolution of geniculate neurones. Nature 264, 754–755 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/264754a0
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