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Neuropsychologia

Volume 35, Issue 11, November 1997, Pages 1459-1465
Neuropsychologia

Comparing the visual deficits of a motion blind patient with the visual deficits of monkeys with area MT removed

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Abstract

The performance of a ‘motion blind’ patient on a series of tasks in which the perception of motion played an essential or no role was compared with that of a human subject with normal vision and with that of macaque monkeys in which cortical visual area MT had been removed and adjacent areas damaged. The patient experienced difficulties on those tasks in which the perception of motion was essential, but was unimpaired on those tasks that did not require it. Similarly, the tasks which the ‘motion blind’ patient found impossible or difficult were precisely those tasks on which monkeys lacking area MT performed poorly. Similarly, the tasks on which the patient performed well also presented no difficulties for the animals lacking cortical area MT. The close correlation between the pattern of visual perceptual impairments in the patient and monkeys indicates that the patient's inability to perceive most forms of visual movement is attributable to total loss of, or extensive damage to, a cortical visual area that is the human equivalent of area MT and perhaps its adjacent areas.

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