Experience and Visual Development: Behavioral Evidence

Tees, Richard C.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-300270-9.50017-1

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“…It is, hoyrever, clear that visually naive rats were as able as visually experienced rats to abstract temporal attributes from modality specific aspects of acoustical signals and relate these to subsequent visual events during their very first experience with such signals. That is to say, as Church and others seem to have assumed, an early visual stimulation history may very well play less of a role in the case of intersensory coordination related to the dimension of duration than we and others might have expected (Burnstine, Greenough, & Tees, 1984;Tees, 1986).…”

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“…More significantly, while visually naive DR animals were as effective as LR animals in acquiring the auditory temporal discrimination, they were significantly less so when faced initially with a duration discrimination involved in visual events. As we have discussed previously (e.g., Tees, 1976Tees, , 1986, lack of experience leaves most mammals less attentive to and/or less able in processing some spatial aspects of visual events. Performance during this phase of our study would seem to suggest the temporal integrative competence required in our visual duration discrimination was adversely affected by a lack of a previous stimulation history involving visual events in much the same way as is the ability to integrate such relational properties between linear elements, e.g., as contour separation or angle/junction (Tees, 1986).…”

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“…As we have discussed previously (e.g., Tees, 1976Tees, , 1986, lack of experience leaves most mammals less attentive to and/or less able in processing some spatial aspects of visual events. Performance during this phase of our study would seem to suggest the temporal integrative competence required in our visual duration discrimination was adversely affected by a lack of a previous stimulation history involving visual events in much the same way as is the ability to integrate such relational properties between linear elements, e.g., as contour separation or angle/junction (Tees, 1986). However, the performances during the further phases of the experiment suggest this to be a rather simple-minded interpretation.…”

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Intersensory coordination and the effects of early sensory deprivation

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Symons

1987

Developmental Psychobiology

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The effect of early visual deprivation on the ability of dark- (DR) and light-reared (LR) rats to learn temporal discriminations involving sounds and lights and to abstract the intersensory correspondence involving duration from initial modality-specific training was examined in this study. While visually inexperienced DR rats were somewhat less successful in acquiring an initial discrimination involving visual events and responding to a rule reversal per se, they were as effective as their visually experienced LR counterparts in demonstrating cross-modal transfer (CMT) to signals in a new modality. The results revealed by the investigation are discussed in terms of the consequences and lack of consequences of the manipulation of early visual experience on the ontogeny of intersensory perceptual development in mammals.

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Intersensory coordination and the effects of early sensory deprivation

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Symons

1987

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…In addition, we were interested in whether or not a month's delay after one day of training would affect visually inexperienced rat's memory for the correct location more than visually experienced animals. A great deal of evidence has accumulated that suggests that lack of early visual stimulation history can affect attention, memory, and perception of temporal and spatial relationships involving visual events (e.g., see Tees, 1986Tees, , 1990 for reviews).…”

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The effect of early experience on water maze spatial learning and memory in rats

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Buhrmann

Hanley

1990

Developmental Psychobiology

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In the first of two experiments on spatial competence, groups of light-reared (LR) and dark-reared (DR) rats were compared using a "latent learning" variation of the Morris Water Maze task. On their initial test, the LR rats benefited more than DR rats did from viewing the room/pool from a platform in the correct location. Further, visually experienced rats remember the location of the platform more than DR rats when retested one month later. In a second experiment, in which a proximal cue as well as location was varied from trial to trial. LR rats again proved to be more competent than their DR counterparts. This second task also revealed significant benefits related to stimulation history in the case of a third group of animals raised in enriched or complex environment (CR) conditions. The results are discussed in terms of the nature of the impact of early experience on the ability to acquire and remember spatial concepts.

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“…The implicit assumption in studies using the deprivation paradigm is that the presence of experience is beneficial to the organism while its absence will impair development, leading to conclusions of vast significance for developmental psychobiology (e.g., Tees, 1986Tees, , 1994. Investigations using sensory enhancement (i.e., introducing sensory experience above and beyond that which is normally present) have broadened ideas about the effects of early experience.…”

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