Citation

Brenner E, Cornelissen FW. Neurosci. Lett. 1992; 135(1): 87-90.

Affiliation

Neuro-ethology group, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1542442

Abstract

Kittens do not learn to use visual information to guide their behaviour if they are deprived of the optic flow that accompanies their own movements. We show that the optic flow that is required for developing visually guided behaviour is derived from changes in contour orientations, rather than from velocity patterns. We used several tests to assess visually guided behaviour. The performance of kittens that had only been allowed to see isolated dots of light was indistinguishable from that of kittens that had received no visual exposure at all. Kittens that had seen streaks of light performed better on several tasks. We discuss this finding with relation to the visual pathways that are presumably involved.

Language: en