Visual Association Cortex and Vision in Man: Pattern-Evoked Occipital Potentials in a Blind Boy
- 11 November 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 198 (4317), 629-631
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.918658
Abstract
In a 6 yr old child, blind since the age of 2 yr, occipital potentials of normal amplitude and waveform were evoked not only by diffuse light flashes but also by alternating checkerboard and sinusoidal grating patterns of low spatial frequency. Computerized tomography demonstrated destruction of the occipital lobes except of the primary visual projection area. Thus, in man, destruction of visual association cortices may result in loss of vision with partial preservation of pattern-evoked occipital potentials.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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