PMID: 1210666Jan 1, 1975Paper

Spatial perception of stimuli during unilateral exclusion of the temporal portion of the neocortex by cold

Zhurnal vyssheĭ nervnoĭ deiatelnosti imeni I P Pavlova
V I ShcherbakovO K Iashnova

Abstract

Behavioral reaction of twelve cats were studied in conditions of inactivation by cold of the temporal area (AI, AII, Ep and partly I-T) of one hemisphere. A typical vestibular ataxy was observed: deflection of the cats when walking, circular movements in the direction of the inactivated temporal area. Orienting reactions both to acoustic and photic stimuli persisted, but their spatial localization was completely lost. In every case the animals exhibited a clear orienting reaction towards the inactivated hemisphere, regardless of the localization of the source of signal. Reactions ot pain and olfactory stimulations likewise proceded in one direction. such a one-sided perception of sounds in the case of inactivation by cold of the temporal neocortex of one hemispheres is apparently due to the functional elimination of contralateral auditory structures. Disturbance of adequate spatial perception of photic, pain and olfactory stimuli under similar conditions results from a sharp drop in the tone predominantly of the ipsilateral hemisphere.

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