Fig. 3: In a second visually naive ferret, 6 h of experience with a phase-scrambled grating pattern caused an increase in selectivity for that pattern.
From: An early phase of instructive plasticity before the typical onset of sensory experience
The eyes were opened prematurely on P31. Panels a–l are as described in Fig. 2, except that S6 was used as the training stimulus. In this animal, some cells were tracked across time and Greek letters appear more than once. This animal exhibited increased selectivity to training stimulus S6, and no significant alterations to direction selectivity. N = 25 cells before and N = 62 cells after for measurements of F, B, S1–6, CP1–2, and N = 41 cells before and N = 145 cells after for direction tuning. Premature animals varied in the influence of phase-scrambled grating patterns on traditional direction selectivity.
