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RONALD E. MYERS, MD

Arch Neurol. 1964;11(1):73-90.

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Animals appear by gross tests to be blinded by certain lesions restricted entirely to the region of the upper brain stem. I have earlier observed such an effect in several cats which had sustained bilateral damage in the region of the optic tectum. Similar findings have been described for the monkey by Schreiner⁸ and for the chimpanzee by Porter and Rioch.⁵ Lillian Blake described marked disturbances of performance on visually learned tasks after lesions described as restricted to the superior colliculi in the cat.¹ Sperry and associates, on the other hand, found only mild disturbances on tests of visual perception in three cats with subtotal lesions of superior colliculi.⁹ Rosvold and others also failed to demonstrate any deficit in visual learning after bilateral lesions destroying up to 80% of the superior colliculus bilaterally in the monkey.⁷ Ferrier and Turner, in studies of monkey superior colliculus . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Baltimore

From the Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC, and the Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication March 14, 1964; accepted March 27.

Supported, in part, by grant NB-2627 of the US Public Health Service and CML grant 55, Edgewood Arsenal, Md. The author was a fellow of the US Public Health Service during the course of the present studies.

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