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The effects of V4 and middle temporal (MT) area lesions on visual performance in the rhesus monkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2009

Peter H. Schiller
Peter H. Schiller
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
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Abstract

The effects of V4, MT, and combined V4+MT lesions were assessed on a broad range of visual capacities that included measures of contrast sensitivity, wavelength and brightness discrimination, form vision, pattern vision, motion and flicker perception, stereopsis, and the selection of stimuli that were less prominent than those with which they appeared in stimulus arrays. The major deficit observed was a loss in the ability, after V4 lesions, to select such less prominent stimuli; this was the case irrespective of the manner in which the stimulus arrays were made visible, using either luminance, chrominance, motion, or stereoscopic depth as surface media. In addition, V4 lesions yielded mild deficits in color, brightness, and form vision whereas MT lesions yielded mild to moderate deficits in motion and flicker perception. Both lesions produced mild deficits in contrast sensitivity, shape-from-motion perception, and yielded increased reaction times on many of the tasks. The impairment resulting from combined V4 and MT lesions was not greater than the sum of the deficits of either lesion. None of the lesions produced significant deficits in stereopsis. The findings suggest that (1) area V4 is part of a neural system that is involved in extracting stimuli from the visual scene that elicit less neural activity early in the visual system than do other stimuli with which they appear and (2) several other extrastriate regions and more than just two major cortical processing streams contribute to the processing of basic visual functions in the extrastriate cortex.

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Visual systemVisual perceptionExtrastriate cortexParallel pathways

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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , July 1993 , pp. 717 - 746
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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