Hubel and Wiesel Cat Experiment

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Uploaded by on Mar 29, 2009

The work of Canadian David Hubel and Swede Torsten Wiesel of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore provided clues to how the brain sees images provided by our eyes. The two jabbed a small microelectrode into a brain cell in the visual cortex at the back of the brain of an anesthetized cat.

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  • To all you saying this is cruel, I hope to God you're vegans. This cat is serving a much more useful purpose than all those animals you've eaten to fill your selfish stomachs.

  • This kind of research is key in helping us to find a cure for the sufferers of visual agnosia, amongst other visual deficits, to improve their quality of life. Those who criticise the use of anesthetized cats in this vital research field should think twice - the benefits to our wellbeing are immense. In fact half of the comments below could not have been if animals were not used in research to enhance our medicinal understanding and protect us from infectious diseases.

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  • woah crazy eyes at 0:07 ...terminator cat.

  • @alondraceli1...Not really Neuralplasticity, its more like micro-mapping the visual cortex, their findings contributed to what is refered to plasticity.

  • really informative and interesting

  • great video thanks

  • Very enjoyable thank you

  • great video thanks

  • Very interesting... neuronal plasticity

  • Animal cruelty. and the results .. ? cure ? no. "scientific" chatter and funds ..and ?? nothing . its all a game of false hopes and human stupidity, because the understanding of the fact of nerves etc does not have to be in such Mengelish manner

  • anyone who is opposed to this, then you guys better NEVER USE the fruits of these kinds of bench research. And believe me, much of what we know today is from animal research. don't be hypocrites. Talk is cheap.

  • Alice Walker Said it perfectly: "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men."

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