How Senses Work Together: Cross-Modal Interactions between Primary Sensory Cortices

Figure 5

A prolonged whisker deprivation (WD) massively boosts behavioral visual performance. (a) Representative trace of the visual acuity of one WD animal obtained by the behavioral visual water task. Before WD, the animal reached a level of visual acuity (0.5 cycle per degree) which is normal for mice [32, 70]. Strikingly, during some days after WD, behavioral visual acuity dramatically increased to a value higher than 0.7 cycle per degree. Averaged across all mice used, visual acuity was found increased by almost 40%. (b) Illustration of visual improvements in WD mice compared to normal human vision.

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