Hemifield-specific visual recognition memory impairments in patients with unilateral temporal lobe removals.

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Recent evidence on visual neglect suggests that each hemisphere maintains a retinotopically organized representation of the visual world contralateral to the current fixation point and that this representation is based not only on analysis of the current retinal input but, equally importantly, on information retrieved from memory. This idea predicts that unilateral damage to memory systems should produce a lateralized impairment of memory for the retinotopically contralateral visual world. To...

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Authors: Hornak, J; Oxbury, S; Oxbury, J; Iversen, S; Gaffan, D

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neuropsychologia
• Volume: 35
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 1311-1315
• Publication date: 1997-09-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3932(97)00062-6
• EISSN: 1873-3514
• ISSN: 0028-3932
• Language: English
• Keywords: Perceptual Disorders; Fixation, Ocular; Neuropsychological Tests; Temporal Lobe; Memory Disorders; Postoperative Complications; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Functional Laterality; Humans; Visual Fields; Adult; Female; Male