1. Effects of peripheral and central visual impairment on mental imagery capacity
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Zenon W. Pylyshyn, David Dulin, Yvette Hatwell, Sylvie Chokron, laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique atomique, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique (LCFIO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut d'Optique Graduate School (IOGS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (LPNC), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (LPP - UMR 8242), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique ( LCFIO ), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut d'Optique Graduate School ( IOGS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 ( UP11 ) -Institut d'Optique Graduate School ( IOGS ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition ( LPNC ), Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 ( UPMF ) -Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 ( UJF ) -Université Savoie Mont Blanc ( USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ) -Université Grenoble Alpes ( UGA ), Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception ( LPP - UMR 8242 ), and Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 ( UPD5 ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS )
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MESH : Imagination ,Diagnostic Imaging ,Visual perception ,genetic structures ,MESH : Brain Mapping ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,MESH : Diagnostic Imaging ,Visual impairment ,Vision Disorders ,Neurological disorder ,050105 experimental psychology ,Perceptual Disorders ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,MESH: Animals ,MESH : Perceptual Disorders ,Hemianopsia ,MESH: Brain Mapping ,MESH: Imagination ,MESH: Perceptual Disorders ,Brain Mapping ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: Diagnostic Imaging ,MESH : Humans ,05 social sciences ,Neuropsychology ,medicine.disease ,MESH : Vision Disorders ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,MESH: Vision Disorders ,[ SDV.NEU ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,Mental representation ,Imagination ,Auditory imagery ,[SDV.NEU]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Neurons and Cognition [q-bio.NC] ,MESH : Animals ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Mental image ,Cognitive psychology - Abstract
International audience; This paper reviews a number of behavioral, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies that bear on the question of whether and how visual disorders of peripheral or central origin lead to disorders of mental imagery capacity. The review of the literature suggests that in cases of blindness of peripheral origin lack of vision can progressively lead to representational disorders. However, in patients suffering from peripheral visual deficits, representational disorders can partially or completely be compensated by other sensory modalities as well as by cortical reorganization. Interestingly, in brain-damaged patients, neurovisual disorders following occipital or parietal lesions are not systematically associated with representational deficits, thus demonstrating that visual perception and visual imagery may not rely on the same cortical structures as previously hypothesized. Impairments seen on mental imagery tasks among brain-damaged patients with visual and/or spatial deficits might be due to an often co-existing attentional deficit. We discuss this possible dissociation between visual perception and visual mental imagery and its implications for theoretical models of mental representation.
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- 2008