Self-produced locomotion restores visual capacity after striate lesions
Abstract:
Rats permitted unrestrained movement in a patterned visual environment during the interval between two-stage vilateral lesions of the visual cortex reacquire a preoperatively learned pattern discrimination. Rats passively transported through the identical visual environment do not. This is the first demonstration that interoperative self-produced locomotion is essential for recovery of function in the visual system.


