<P> David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel ( who won the Nobel prize in Physiology for their elucidation of receptive field properties of cells in primary visual cortex ) first performed the technique in felines . Cats ( or kittens ) , although less - closely related evolutionarily to humans even than rodents , have a remarkably similar visual system to humans . They found that ocular dominance columns ( the orderly clustering of V1 neurons representing visual input from one or both eyes ) were dramatically disrupted when one eye was sewn shut for 2 months . In the normal feline , about 85 % of cells are responsive to input to both eyes ; in the monocularly - deprived animals , no cells receive input from both eyes . </P>
<P> David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel ( who won the Nobel prize in Physiology for their elucidation of receptive field properties of cells in primary visual cortex ) first performed the technique in felines . Cats ( or kittens ) , although less - closely related evolutionarily to humans even than rodents , have a remarkably similar visual system to humans . They found that ocular dominance columns ( the orderly clustering of V1 neurons representing visual input from one or both eyes ) were dramatically disrupted when one eye was sewn shut for 2 months . In the normal feline , about 85 % of cells are responsive to input to both eyes ; in the monocularly - deprived animals , no cells receive input from both eyes . </P>
when one of a kitten 's eyes was sewn shut the main changes in the visual system affected the
when one of a kitten 's eyes was sewn shut the main changes in the visual system affected the
ocular dominance columns
ocular dominance columns