Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Orientation discrimination in normal and light-deprived rabbits

  • Published:
Documenta Ophthalmologica Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  • Brouwer, B. Experimental anatomische Untersuchungen über die Projektion der Retina auf die primären Opticuszentren. Schweiz. Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. 13, 118–137 (1923).

    Google Scholar 

  • Coleman, D. D. & A. H.Riesen. Environmental effects on cortical dendritic fields. I. Rearing in the dark. J. Anat. 102, 363–374 (1968).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dews, P. B. & T. N.Wiesel. Consequences of monocular deprivation on visual behaviour in kittens. J. Physiol. 206, 437–455 (1969).

    Google Scholar 

  • Dodwell, P. C. Shape recognition in rats. Brain J. Psychol. 48, 221–229 (1956).

    Google Scholar 

  • Goodman, L. Effect of total absence of function on the optic system of rabbits. Am. J. Physiol. 100, 46–63 (1931).

    Google Scholar 

  • Horn, G. & R. M.Hill. Responsiveness to sensory stimulation of units in the superior colliculus and subjacent tectotegmental regions of the rabbit. Exptl. Neurol. 14, 199–223 (1966).

    Google Scholar 

  • Ingle, D. J. & G. E.Schneider. Brain mechanisms and vision: subcortical systems. Science, 168, 1493–1494 (1970).

    Google Scholar 

  • Mello, N. K. Interhemispheric reversal of mirror-image oblique lines following monocular training in pigeons. Science 148, 252–254 (1965).

    Google Scholar 

  • Riesen, A. H. Sensory deprivation, in: Progress in Physiological Psychology, Academic Press, Stellar, E. and Sprague, J. M. eds. (1966).

  • Sprague, J. M. & G.Berlucchi. Proc. Int. Union of Physiol. Sc. vol. VII, 414 (1968).

    Google Scholar 

  • Sutherland, N. S. Visual discrimination of orientation and shape by the Octopus. Nature, 179, 11–13 (1957).

    Google Scholar 

  • — The learning of discrimination by animals. Endeavour 23, 148–152 (1964).

    Google Scholar 

  • TenCate, J. & A. W. H.VanHerk. Beobachtungen an Kaninchen nach extirpationen im Neopallium. Arch. Need. Physiol. 18, 1–51 (1934).

    Google Scholar 

  • Thompson, J. M., C. N.Woolsey & S. A.Talbot. Visual areas I and II of cerebral cortex of rabbit. J. Neurophysiol. 13, 277–288 (1950).

    Google Scholar 

  • Valverde, F. & A.Ruiz-Marcos. Dendritic spines in the visual cortex of the mouse. Exp. Brain Res. 8, 269–283 (1969).

    Google Scholar 

  • VanHof, M. W. Discrimination between striated patterns of different orientation in the rabbit. Vision Res. 6, 89–94 (1966).

    Google Scholar 

  • — & C. A. G.Wiersma. The angular threshold of discrimination for striated patterns of different orientation in the rabbit. Vision Res. 7, 265–270 (1967).

    Google Scholar 

  • — Visual acuity in the rabbit. Vision Res. 7, 749–751 (1967).

    Google Scholar 

  • — Discrimination of striated patterns of different orientation in rabbits deprived of light after birth. Exptl. Neurol. 23, 561–565 (1969).

    Google Scholar 

  • — Interocular transfer in the rabbit. Exptl. Neurol. 26, 103–108 (1970a).

    Google Scholar 

  • — Mechanisms of orientation discrimination. Exptl. Neurol. 28, 494–500 (1970b).

    Google Scholar 

  • — Orientation discrimination in rabbits reared in darkness. Pflügers Arch. 318, 274 (1970c).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. M. W. Van Hof
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Rotterdam

Department of Physiology, Medical Faculty, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Thanks are due to Pergamon Press for permission to use Fig. 1 and 3 and to Academic Press for Fig. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 11.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Van Hof, M.W. Orientation discrimination in normal and light-deprived rabbits. Doc Ophthalmol 30, 299–311 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142526

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142526

Keywords

Search

Navigation