Rapid learning of visual and auditory spatial task in binocularly deprived cats

Abstract

Visually deprived and non-deprived cats were trained in a task involving a directional alimentary response spatially contiguous with a visual or an auditory cue. Both visual and auditory tasks were learned much faster by deprived cats. In these cats targeting reflexes evoked by the cues were stronger. When the modality of the cue was changed (from visual into auditory or vice versa), the learning was rapid in both non-deprived and deprived cats.