EARLY VISUAL DEVELOPMENT - DIFFERENTIAL FUNCTIONING OF PARVOCELLULAR AND MAGNOCELLULAR PATHWAYS
EARLY VISUAL DEVELOPMENT - DIFFERENTIAL FUNCTIONING OF PARVOCELLULAR AND MAGNOCELLULAR PATHWAYS
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DOI:
10.1038/eye.1992.28
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发表时间:
1992-01-01
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
ATKINSON, J
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作者:
ATKINSON, J
The idea of two visual systems arose out of comparative studies of vision across different species. 1 It was sug gested that subcortical systems control orienting responses which define crudely'where'an object is located and trigger foveation to that location, while corti cal mechanisms are used to define'what'is actually in the foveated area. Using this idea, Bronson2 put forward a model of human development suggesting that newborn vision is totally subcortically controlled with the cortex maturing at around two months postnatally. Atkinson, 3 using both electrophysiological and behavioural data from infant studies, put forward a modified'two visual systems' model of development. The newborn visual system is' largely'subcortically controlled, with different cortical mechanisms starting to function at different times postnatally.In this paper the ideas behind this theory are updated in the light of recent research on infants. Two theoretical models of adult vision are used to make analogies with infant vision. The first is based largely on primate lesion studies, where dissociations relating to different lesions have been noted. A'where'and a'what'system have been defined solely within the cortical pathways. The initial evidence for selective processing of visual information in primate extrastriate cortex was obtained by Zeki and his co-workers. They defined an area selective for the direc tion of stimulus motion which has since been called VS or MT. 4 In other studies Zeki5, 6 identified a colour specific area, V4. Ungerleider and Mishkin7 suggested that these two streams are associated with different visual capaci ties-a largely parietal module is involved with localising objects within a spatial array, while those involving the temporal lobe contain mechanisms tuned to'what'aspects such as form and colour. Clinical observations of patients