Compare And Contrast Blakemores And Coopers Experiment On Kittens

Blakemores and Coopers experiment on kittens was where the kittens were reared in completed darkness until the kitten’s eyes were opened and the kittens were 14 days old. The kittens were then subjected to 5 hours a day either looking at vertical or horizontal stripes, until the kittens were 5 months old. While the kittens were to start with disorientated the kittens swiftly learned to cope, however the kittens vision remained abnormal. For example, a kitten raised to see only horizontal stripes would ignore the vertical rod and only response to a horizontal rod being shaken. This effected the nervous system as when the kitten’s cortices were tested, it was found that the neurons had developed a preference for firing when lines at a certain