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Monocular deprivation is an experimental technique used by neuroscientists to study central nervous system plasticity.Generally, one of an animal's eyes is sutured shut during a period of high cortical plasticity (4–5 weeks-old in mice (Gordon 1997)).
A landmark experiment by David H. Hubel and Torsten Wiesel (1963) showed that cats that had one eye sewn shut from birth to three months of age (monocular deprivation) only fully developed vision in the open eye. They showed that columns in the primary visual cortex receiving inputs from the other eye took over the areas that would normally ...
Cats can judge within 8 centimetres (3 inches) the location of a sound being made 1 metre (1 yard) away [13] —this can be useful for locating their prey. It is a common misconception that all white cats with blue eyes are deaf. [14] This is not true, as there are many blue-eyed cats with perfect hearing.
One of the sweetest ways cats show affection (and dogs, too!), getting licked is a sign that your fur friend considers you to be one of their tribe. Unless licking is excessive (in which case it ...
A rare predominantly black cat with odd eyes. The odd-eyed colouring is caused when either the epistatic (recessive) white gene or dominant white (which masks any other colour genes and turns a cat completely solid white) [3] or the white spotting gene (which is the gene responsible for bicolour coats) [4] prevents melanin granules from reaching one eye during development, resulting in a cat ...
Leave it to a cat to cause a huge power outage and then walk away like it's no big deal. That's exactly what happened with a Siamese cat named Blue who probably didn't even realize the mess he'd made.
In one of his most recent antics, he wanted to watch his favorite show, SpongeBob SquarePants, on the big TV with his humans. But the spare human was playing video games, and Milo was not happy about.
In domestic chicks and other species of birds exhibiting USWS, one eye remained open contra-lateral (on the opposite side) to the "awake" hemisphere. The closed eye was shown to be opposite the hemisphere engaging in slow-wave sleep. Learning tasks, such as those including predator recognition, demonstrated the open eye could be preferential. [8]