A temporal/nasal asymmetry for blindsight in a localisation task: evidence for extrageniculate mediation |
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Authors: | Dodds Chris Machado Liana Rafal Robert Ro Tony |
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Affiliation: | Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Adeilad Brigantia, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2AS, UK. |
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Abstract: | Some patients with hemianopia due to striate cortex lesions show above chance ability in reporting visual stimuli presented in the blind visual field, a phenomenon commonly known as blindsight. Here we report a patient with a dense right hemianopia whose blindsight shows a temporal/nasal asymmetry. MP was tested in a two-alternative forced-choice localisation task, with either the right eye or the left eye patched in separate blocks. When targets appeared in the contralesional temporal hemifield, MP's localisation performance was extremely accurate, whilst she performed at chance with targets in the contralesional nasal hemifield. This is the first demonstration of a temporal/nasal asymmetry for blindsight in a forced-choice paradigm, and is consistent with blindsight in MP's hemianopic field being mediated by a subcortical, extrageniculate route. |
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