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Annual Review of Vision Science

Volume 8, 2022

Critical Periods in Vision Revisited

Abstract

For four decades, investigations of the biological basis of critical periods in the developing mammalian visual cortex were dominated by study of the consequences of altered early visual experience in cats and nonhuman primates. The neural deficits thus revealed also provided insight into the origin and neural basis of human amblyopia that in turn motivated additional studies of humans with abnormal early visual input. Recent human studies point to deficits arising from alterations in all visual cortical areas and even in nonvisual cortical regions. As the new human data accumulated in parallel with a near-complete shift toward the use of rodent animal models for the study of neural mechanisms, it is now essential to review the human data and the earlier animal data obtained from cats and monkeys to infer general conclusions and to optimize future choice of the most appropriate animal model.

Keyword(s): amblyopia, binocular vision, ocular dominance, visual acuity, visual cortex, visual deprivation
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Critical Periods in Vision Revisited
Annual Review of Vision Science 8, 291 (2022); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-vision-090721-110411
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