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Crowley and Katz cast doubt on the idea that correlated activity is critical for visual cortex development by showing that ocular dominance maps can emerge without any retinal input.

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Figure 1: Ocular dominance map of monkey striate cortex.
Figure 2: Experiment of Crowley and Katz1 showing that ocular dominance columns developed even in animals that had their eyes removed at birth.

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Hübener, M., Bonhoeffer, T. Eyes wide shut. Nat Neurosci 2, 1043–1045 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/15964

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