Hemianopic visual field defects elicit hemianopic scanning

Previous explanations for the variability in success of compensating for homonymous hemianopia (HH) has been in terms of extent of the brain injury. In using on-line eye movement registrations, we simulated HH in 16 healthy subjects and compared their scanning performance on a dot counting task to t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Vision research (Oxford) 2002-05, Vol.42 (10), p.1339-1348
Hauptverfasser: Tant, M.L.M., Cornelissen, F.W., Kooijman, A.C., Brouwer, W.H.
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Zusammenfassung:Previous explanations for the variability in success of compensating for homonymous hemianopia (HH) has been in terms of extent of the brain injury. In using on-line eye movement registrations, we simulated HH in 16 healthy subjects and compared their scanning performance on a dot counting task to their own “normal” condition and to real HH patients' performance. We evidenced clear parallels between simulated and real HH, suggesting that hemianopic scanning behaviour is primarily visually elicited, namely by the visual field defect, and not by the additional brain damage. We further observed age-related processes in compensating for the HH.
ISSN:0042-6989
1878-5646
DOI:10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00044-5