Mon-Williams, M., Tresilian, J.R., McIntosh, R.D. et al. (1 more author) (2001) Monocular and binocular distance cues: insights from visual form agnosia I (of III). Experimental Brain Research, 139 (2). pp. 127-136. ISSN 0014-4819
Abstract
The human nervous system constructs a Euclidean representation of near (personal) space by combining multiple sources of information (cues). We investigated the cues used for the representation of personal space in a patient with visual form agnosia (DF). Our results indicated that DF relies predominantly on binocular vergence information when determining the distance of a target despite the presence of other (retinal) cues. Notably, DF was able to construct an Euclidean representation of personal space from vergence alone. This finding supports previous assertions that vergence provides the nervous system with veridical information for the construction of personal space. The results from the current study, together with those of others, suggest that: (i) the ventral stream is responsible for extracting depth and distance information from "monocular" retinal cues (i.e. from shading, texture, perspective) and (ii) the dorsal stream has access to binocular information (from horizontal image disparities and vergence). These results also indicate that DF was not able to use size information to gauge target distance, suggesting that intact temporal cortex is necessary for "learned size" to influence distance processing. Our findings further suggest that in neurologically intact humans, object information extracted in the ventral pathway is combined with the products of dorsal stream processing for guiding prehension. Finally, we studied the "size-distance paradox" in visual form agnosia in order to explore the cognitive use of size information. The results of this experiment were consistent with a previous suggestion that the paradox is a cognitive phenomenon.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: |
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Keywords: | prehension; binocular; vergence; distance cues; visual form agnosia; human |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) > Cognitive Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Repository Officer |
Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2009 11:21 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jun 2015 17:29 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002210000657 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Verlag |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s002210000657 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:8677 |