151. Preserved imagery for colours in a patient with cerebral achromatopsia.
- Author
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Bartolomeo P, Bachoud-Lévi AC, and Denes G
- Subjects
- Aged, Anomia diagnosis, Anomia physiopathology, Anomia psychology, Attention physiology, Brain Mapping, Cerebrovascular Disorders diagnosis, Cerebrovascular Disorders psychology, Color Vision Defects diagnosis, Color Vision Defects psychology, Discrimination Learning, Female, Hemianopsia diagnosis, Hemianopsia physiopathology, Hemianopsia psychology, Humans, Mental Recall physiology, Occipital Lobe physiopathology, Visual Cortex physiopathology, Cerebrovascular Disorders physiopathology, Color Perception physiology, Color Vision Defects physiopathology, Dominance, Cerebral physiology, Imagination physiology
- Abstract
We report the case of a patient who, after sequential bilateral strokes in the occipital regions sparing the primary visual cortex, developed a severe deficit of colour perception. At variance with other reports of acquired achromatopsic patients, she showed a perfectly vivid visual imagery for colours. These findings, together with similar data in domains other than colour processing, challenge the theories which posit that the same cognitive processes are involved in both the perception and the retrieval from memory of a given stimulus.
- Published
- 1997
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