Visual evoked response correlates of cerebral specialization after human commissurotomy |
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Authors: | Peggy S Gott Valerie S Rossiter Gary C Galbraith Ronald E Saul |
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Institution: | 1. Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA;2. Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA;3. Department of Neurology, Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90033, USA |
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Abstract: | Visual evoked responses (VERs) were recorded from commissurotomy patients and normal subjects in order to investigate the electrophysiological correlates of cerebral lateralization and independent hemispheric processing. A verbal task consisted of detecting rhyming words and a spatial task consisted of comparing matching shapes. Stimuli were delivered, by means of a computer graphic display, into the right visual field, the left visual field, or both visual fields. Behavioral results and evoked response waveforms showed lateralization for verbal processing in the left hemisphere for the patient group. Analysis of variance of product moment correlation coefficients between VER waveforms indicated significant differences between unilateral and bilateral stimulation for both patients and normals. Commissurotomy and normal VERs showed similar patterns of correlation when verbal stimuli were delivered to the left hemisphere, but differed during right hemisphere stimulation. The results are discussed in terms of VER correlates of visual-verbal processing. |
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