Cerebral Cortex Advance Access published online on April 27, 2004
Cerebral Cortex, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhh045
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1 Department of Ophthalmology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA; Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: billm{at}cvs.rochester.edu.
This study adapted the method of partial lesions, combined with controlled fixation, to study the perceptual role of macaque infero-temporal (IT) cortex. Unilateral lesions were made in IT cortex of three monkeys, without section of the corpus callosum, and visual function was tested ipsilateral and contralateral to the lesion. The observed changes were compared to the effects of bilateral lesions of IT cortex in one monkey, the approach used in most previous studies. Unilateral lesions produced far less profound, although more selective, loss on the tested visual abilities than did bilateral lesions. All three monkeys with unilateral lesions showed decreased chromatic sensitivity, but sparing of achromatic sensitivity, and severely disrupted learning and performance of visual matching to sample, and in all cases, the visual loss was contralateral to the site of the lesion. Unexpectedly, the magnitude of the contralateral loss was not increased by later section of the corpus callosum and anterior commissure in one of the monkeys, a lesion that removes interhemisperic input to contralateral from ipsilateral temporal cortex neurons. These results support physiological findings that show that the response of IT cortex neurons is dominated by the contralateral visual field, despite the bilateral activation many IT neurons receive. Comparison to earlier studies of lesions of area V4, which provides input to IT cortex, shows that V4 and IT lesions produce qualitatively different effects. Key Words:
color, inferotemporal cortex, learning, matching, macaque, shape
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Unilateral Deficits in Visual Perception and Learning after Unilateral Inferotemporal Cortex Lesions in Macaques
2 Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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