Consider the experiment described on page 357 and figure 11.23 In the text in which the eye muscles of one eye are weakened in a monkey and then saccades are tracked. If the experimenters were to cover the intact eye first when they presented visual stimuli on day 1 and then switch the patch to the weakened eye for 5 days, what would you expect the outcome to be?

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When the intact eye is used after the weakened eye has been patched, the brain adapts to the weakened state of the muscles in the covered eye. When the patch is switched to the weakened eye, the brain's adaptation to the weakened eye's condition would cause the intact eye's saccades to be unaffected or slightly smaller, as the brain compensates for the perceived weakness.

Consider the Experiment Described on Page 357 and Figure 11