An area within human ventral cortex sensitive to "building" stimuli: evidence and implications.

Isolated, ventral brain lesions in humans occasionally produce specific impairments in the ability to use landmarks, particularly buildings, for way-finding. Using functional MRI, we tested the hypothesis that there exists a cortical region specialized for the perception of buildings. Across subjects, a region straddling the right lingual sulcus was identified that possessed the functional correlates predicted for a specialized building area. A series of experiments discounted several alternative explanations for the behavior of this site. These results are discussed in terms of their impact upon our understanding of the functional structure of visual processing, disorders of topographical disorientation, and the influence of environmental conditions upon neural organization.

• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Neuron

• Publication date

  1998-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80546-2PMID 9728918
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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