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I saw a film about an experiment on kittens. From birth some were kept in a white box with horizontal black stripes. After some weeks they were taken out; they could not percieve verticals. A stick waved in front of them would get a lesser and lesser reaction according to how near to vertical it was.
Ditto for kittens in boxes with vertical lines; they could not perceive verticals.
So one lot would have been stuffed if a cobra reared up in front of them, and the other lot would have been stuffed if a python slithered towards them
ANother was from the 1970s or 1960s. A bloke wore special specs wwith mirrors in that showed him the world upside down. It took him somethng like 4 weeks to adjust and to see this as normal. When he then took them off, the right-way-up world (which of course it is not on the back of the eye!) was as bad as the inverted one four weeks earlier; he was unable to walk about without bumping into things.
All clever stuff, innit?
I've been thinking about that one. Hopefully it won't take four weeks in my case
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