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Brain Advance Access originally published online on May 21, 2008
Brain 2008 131(6):1411-1413; doi:10.1093/brain/awn097
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Visual capacity in the hemianopic field following a restricted occipital ablation. By L. Weiskrantz, Elizabeth K. Warrington, M. D. Sanders and J. Marshall (From the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford and The National Hospital, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK) Brain 1974: 97; 709–728.

Alastair Compston

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Professor Weiskrantz, from the University of Oxford, and his colleagues at Queen Square set the scene for their case report in detail of what—drawing on the linguistically economical 19th century terminologies of ‘word-blindness’ and ‘word-deafness’—they call ‘blind-sight’ by reference to the magisterial descriptions of visual field loss based on the analysis of penetrating injuries of the head by Gordon Holmes (1918) and George Riddoch (1917) after the Great War, and by Edward Tauber, William Battersby and Morris Bender (1960) following the Second World War. But these giants of descriptive neurology, restricted to knowledge gained from human, not monkey, neuroscience and limiting their gaze to the gross deficits that follow extensive occipital lesions, may have missed some subtleties of the visual experience that result from damage to the striate cortex. Proceeding with commendable caution, the authors prepare readers for the revelation that the cortex, with lesions restricted to Brodmann area 17, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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