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Should the superficial superior colliculus be part of Merker's mesodiencephalic system?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2007

John Schlag
John Schlag
Affiliation:
Department of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1763. jschlag@ucla.edu
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Abstract

The superficial superior colliculus appears to be a primitive visual analyzer whose function has been taken over by the visual cortex, most completely in man. The phenomenon of blindsight shows that, although intact, the superior colliculus cannot by itself provide conscious perception in human patients. Is it possible that, in anencephalic children, it recovers the role it had in lower mammals?

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , February 2007 , pp. 105 - 106
Copyright
2007 Cambridge University Press

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