Abstract
This chapter summarizes K. S. Lashley’s viewpoints on the mechanism of vision. A major group of papers in The Mechanism of Vision series have as a central theme the testing of rats with destruction of the visual cortical areas. Lashley found that rats with practically complete striatectomy jumped readily and oriented to visual targets. The jumping accuracy of Lashley’s destriated rats can be interpreted as relatively preserved visual space localization. Although this ability was not discovered in similarly operated monkeys, there were indications from work on one such animal with incomplete ablations that it could localize visual events in space. The last subject covered in The Mechanism of Vision is strictly anatomical and involves studies on the structure and image-forming power of the eye, as well as on the sites of termination of retinal fibers and the cortical projections of the lateral geniculate nucleus.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Neuropsychology after Lashley |
| Subtitle of host publication | Fifty Years since the Publication of Brain Mechanisms and Intelligence |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 137-156 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429953699 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0898590884, 9781138592452 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |