Blake and Hirsch (1975) Use Selective Rearing of Kittens to Show

question 14

Multiple Choice

 Blake and Hirsch (1975) use selective rearing of kittens to show that _____.

• A) kittens are born with fully developed binocular cells
• B) binocular neurons are not necessary for stereopsis
• C) disparity-selective neurons are responsible for stereopsis
• D) severing the optic chiasm increases the number of binocular cells

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