Summary Table with Lesions and Functions Occipital Lobe
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Neuropsychology
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
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Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology
Table with lesions and functions of the occipital lobe that are discussed in the lectures of Neuropsychology.
Lecturer: Erik Scherder
Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Year 2
Lectures are based on the book: Fundamentals of Human Neuropsychology - 4042
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a Occipital
Function Lesion
General Vision Geniculostriate:
- Blindsight
Geniculostriate system:
- Perception of form and colours Visual agnosia’s:
- Depth perception 1. Apperceptive agnosia
- Improved recognition by moving object
Tectopulvinar system: - Simultaneous agnosia
- Tracking, localizing, and following objects with eyes
- In particular, in peripheral visual fields 2. Associative agnosia
- Can copy
Prosopagnosia = inability to recognize faces
Pure alexia = not being able to read
Visuospatial agnosia = no recognition of where you have been before
Defective topographical orientation: right medial occipitotemporal
region
- Cannot make image of environment, trace a map, tell the way
(non-verbal memory)
- Often prosopagnosia, dressing & constructional apraxia
- Normal verbal memory (more LH)
- Severe disturbance in memory (e.g., topographical memory:
don’t recognize you been there already 5 times)
Primary V1 = striate cortex
Secondary V2
Tertiary V3A = form, V3 = dynamic form V3 + V3a no form perception
V4 = colour form
V5 = motion V4 no colour perception
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