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When the Eye of an Infant Is Kept Closed During

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When the eye of an infant is kept closed during infancy, the resulting change in layer 4 of the visual cortex is


A) no observable change.
B) ocular dominance columns linked to the functional eye are wider, while those linked to the closed eye are more narrow.
C) neurons corresponding to the deprived eye are more diffusely interconnected than those corresponding to the open eye.
D) cell bodies of neurons with input from the closed eye are smaller.
E) neurons corresponding to the deprived eye fire in a tonic rather than phasic pattern.

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