Behavioral Development Profiles

Information on the developmental stages of ferret vision and perceptuomotor abilities, categorized week-by-week post eye opening.

Basically, come up with a bunch of metrics that we believe correlate with "Good" behavior, look at how those metrics evolve in different behavioral conditions.

We can look for:

• Across the board deficits

  • Evidence of global developemental delay

• Deficits along specific task dimensions

  • e.g. what does the Binocular Vergence trajecotry look like with different amounts of binocular vs monocular conditions?

  • e.g.Colloquial:

    • Manipulate the statistics of how often the food/target appeared on the right visual field and see what that does to [superior colliculus]