Impaired attentional selection following lesions to human pulvinar: evidence for homology between human and monkey.

We examined the contributions of the human pulvinar to goal directed selection of visual targets in 3 patients with chronic, unilateral lesions involving topographic maps in the ventral pulvinar. Observers completed 2 psychophysical tasks in which they discriminated the orientation of a lateralized...

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Main Authors: Snow, J, Allen, H, Rafal, R, Humphreys, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009