Neuropsychological evidence for three distinct motion mechanisms
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2011
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Vaina, Lucia M.
Dumoulin, Serge O.
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L.M. Vaina, S. Dumoulin. 2011. "Neuropsychological evidence for three distinct motion mechanisms." Neuroscience Letters, Volume 495, Issue 2, pp. 102 - 106.
Abstract
We describe psychophysical performance of two stroke patients with lesions in distinct cortical regions in
the left hemisphere. Both patients were selectively impaired on direction discrimination in several local
and global second-order but not first-order motion tasks. However, only patient FD was impaired on a
specific bi-stable motion task where the direction of motion is biased by object similarity. We suggest
that this bi-stable motion task may be mediated by a high-level attention or position based mechanism
indicating a separate neurological substrate for a high-level attention or position-based mechanism.
Therefore, these results provide evidence for the existence of at least three motion mechanisms in the
human visual system: a low-level first- and second-order motion mechanism and a high-level attention
or position-based mechanism.
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Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Lett. 2011 May 16; 495(2): 102–106. doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2011.03.048.