Dissociation of spatial information for stimulus localization and the control of attention.
Dissociation of spatial information for stimulus localization and the control of attention.
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空间信息的分离用于刺激定位和注意力控制。
DOI:
10.1093/brain/104.4.861
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发表时间:
1981
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影响因子:
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通讯作者:
M. Gazzaniga
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作者:
J. D. Holtzman;J. Sidtis;Bruce T. Volpe;Donald H. Wilson;M. Gazzaniga
BEHAVIOUR following complete midline section of the corpus callosum in humans, a surgical procedure preformed for the control of epilepsy, reveals intact sensory capacities within each visual half-field, but an inability to perform explicit interfield comparisons of stimuli presented on both sides of the visual midline (Gazzaniga, 1970; Gazzaniga and LeDoux, 1978). This occurs because the geniculo-striate sensory projections to areas 17 and 18 of visual cortex are almost exclusively representative of the contralateral visual half-field: ipsilateral representation is provided only indirectly through interconnections between the hemispheres via the Loss of ipsilateral sensory representation in the isolated cerebral hemisphere following callosal section is not unique to the visual modality; analogous findings have been noted as well with regard to auditory (Springer, Sidtis, Wilson and Gazzaniga, 1978) and tactile stimulation (Gazzaniga, Bogen and Sperry, 1963). Despite these severe sensory disconnections, corresponding disruptions of visual-motor behaviour are less evident. Commissurotomy patients direct action within the environment with little overt difficulty or hesitation: they are able to walk, run, avoid obstacles, and, in one instance, operate a motorcycle. While much of the coordination of such behaviour is subcortical (Grillner, 1975; Shik and Orlovski, 1976), the selection of specific goals for directed behaviour depends on internal representations and therefore, presumably, requires cortical involvement. If the separated hemispheres vied for the control of behaviour, one would anticipate an organism in a state of constant response competition. On the other hand, control of behaviour by a dominant hemisphere would predict a state of unilateral neglect. While either state can be elicited in the laboratory, neither is the rule in the normal environment. To explain the integrity of coordinated visual-motor behaviour, it was suggested that, although visual information is not transferred between areas subserving explicit stimulus identification, integration may occur across the visual midline for the control of selective visual attention. By providing the com-missurotomy patient with bilateral visual information for the selection of specific goals, such integration could account for the absence of both unilateral neglect and constant competition between the hemispheres for the control of directed behaviour. The two studies reported below provided evidence that following callosal surgery, a bilateral representation of the visual world is available for the allocation of attentional capacities, and that a distinction can be made between spatial information as it is used for the control of attention and that used for explicit stimulus localization. Experiment 1. Intra and Inter field …
DOI:
10.1126/science.6782673
发表时间:
1981
期刊:
Science (New York, N.Y.)
影响因子:
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作者:
Sidtis,JJ;Volpe,BT;Holtzman,JD;Wilson,DH;Gazzaniga,MS
通讯作者:
Gazzaniga,MS