Role of the Right Parietal Lobe in the Mediation of Cross-Modal Associations and Reversible Operations in Space

Butters, Nelson; Barton, Melvin I.; Brody, Betty Ann

doi:10.1016/s0010-9452(70)80026-0

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“…They found that patients with right hemisphere damage took longer and made more errors on Shepard and Metzler type stimuli than patients who had damage to the left hemisphere. Similar results were reported by Butters, Barton and Brody (1970) and Ratcliff (1979). More importantly, brain damaged patients in each of these studies had lesions to their right parietal lobe.…”

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Psychophysiological correlates of dynamic imagery

Williams

Rippon

Stone³

et al. 1995

British J of Psychology

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Brain Electrical Activity Maps were recorded from 20 subjects whilst performing: (a) the Vandenberg & Kuse Mental Rotation Test (MRT) and: (b) the Isaac, Marks & Russell Vividness of Movement Imagery Questionnaire (VMIQ), and under control conditions. Subjects were classified as good or poor imagers, first on the basis of their VMIQ scores, and secondly on their MRT scores. Alpha, beta 1 and beta 2 at different cortical regions were compared between groups and between task performance and control conditions. During MRT significant reductions in alpha amplitude were found over both right and left parietal areas and over the left frontal region. In beta 1 non‐significant trends in the same direction were observed in the same regions found to be significant in alpha. Non‐significant trends in beta 2 were observed over the right parietal and frontal regions. No differences in amplitude at any frequency band were found between good and poor VMIQ scorers but subjects with high MRT scores showed greater alpha amplitude at many sites in the parietal, parieto‐occipital and frontal areas than subjects with low MRT scores. During VMIQ testing the VMIQ high imagers showed a non‐significant trend towards higher alpha amplitude at frontal regions and some scattered parietal and occipital sites and significantly higher levels of beta 2 in the left frontal region. However, no differences were found between imagery and control conditions. The results confirm the involvement of motor as well as spatial processes in dynamic imagery.

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Psychophysiological correlates of dynamic imagery

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Rippon

Stone³

et al. 1995

British J of Psychology

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“…Some patients can no longer identify accurately the absolute or relative locations, distances or sizes of objects (Ratcliff & Davies-Jones 1972), even if depth perception is unchanged, nor can they reach for or point to external objects with precision, and they make errors in spatial orientation (Teuber 1963). Some can no longer perform reversible operations in visual space, or assume in imagination dilTering properties of objects or drawings, and show constructional and dressing apraxias (Hecaen 1962, Butlers & Barton 1970, Butters et al 1970. A common and most striking sign is a profound neglect of and inattention to the contralateral half of the body and of external space (Patlerson & ZangwilI 1944, Oxbury et al 1974, more frequently after lesions of the right than the left hemisphere in right-handed individuals (Hecaen et al 1964).…”

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Brain Mechanisms for Directed Attention

Mountcastle

1978

J R Soc Med

235

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In his inaugural address of this series in 1957, Lord Adrian (Adrian 1957) elucidated the general conceptual approach used by Sherrington in his analysis of the function of the nervous system, and showed how in his long and productive scientific career Sherrington established the science of neurophysiology as we know it in the English-speaking world. Later lecturers (Denny-Brown 1962, Granit 1968, Whitteridge 1972 have illustrated through their own discoveries the continuing influence of Sherrington's ideas upon contemporary neuroscience. You will see from that which follows that I have taken a somewhat different approach in my research of recent years (Mountcastle et 0/. 1975, Mountcastle 1976, Lynch et 01. 1977. Nevertheless, I like to believe that Sherrington would have found something of interest in it.The experiments I shall describe have their conceptual origin in part in the studies of parietal lobe function in humans, particularly those studies of Holmes (1918Holmes ( , 1936, Critchley (1953) and Denny-Brown & Chambers (1958), and those of similarly perceptive neurologists who have followed them. Their clinical studies have led to the proposition that the parietal lobe of the cerebrum, together with its system connections, contains a neural apparatus which generates an internal neural image of the body position within the immediately surrounding behavioural space and the gravitational field, of the spatial relation between the body parts, of the direction of gaze and of visual attention, and of dynamic changes in these postural and attitudinal sets.It is the major theme of my lecture that this parietal lobe mechanism also receives signals concerning the internal state of the organism in terms of needs and interests, and from time to time generates commands for action, for selective and directed visual attention into the immediate behavioural surround, for the visual grasping of objects, and for skilled coordinated actions of hand and eye. On the afferent side this apparatus appears to be linked to the 'second' visual system, that which projects via the superior colliculus and pretectum to the dorsal thalamus and the parietal lobe, as well as to a relayed and convergent input from the geniculostriate system via the dorsal thalamus. This command apparatus of the parietal lobe appears to function less automatically than do more familiar ones linking input to output directly. It is conditional in nature, and depends for action upon the outcome of a matching function between the neural signals of the nature of objects -quality, location, novelty -and those of central drive states. AttentionThe human observer possesses a limited information processing capacity, yet he is immersed in a sea of signals which possess important implications and consequences for him -guides for.

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“…A breakdown in cross-mo dal performance might, in fact, only result when either the critical supramodal pro cessing area is damaged or when all po lymodal input channels to the supramodal region are eliminated. In support of this hypothesis are the observations that da mage to the IPL in monkeys interferes with multimodal learning set performance [90] and in man IPL damage disrupts cross-modal recognition [10], Thus su pramodal cognition may indeed underlie cross-modal skills.…”

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“…Damage to the right parieto-occipital region, specifically the I PL, as I shall discuss in detail, compromises the afflict ed patient's ability to orient to and other wise interact with the spatial environment [7,10, 18, 58,70, 71]. Given the role of the left 1PL in language functions, it is partic ularly interesting that right I PL damage should produce such disorders in spatial behavior.…”

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“…Patients with damage to this region often ignore or neglect the left side of extrapersonal space, have diffi culty in representing spatial relations when drawing, copying, or manually con structing visual patterns, and perform poorly on tasks requiring visual discrimi nation and integration [4, 7,10, 18, 22,41, 58,70, 71, 86]. Observations such as these are typically viewed as evidence that the human right hemisphere possesses visuo-spatial capacities that are poorly, if at all, represented in the left hemisphere.…”

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Neuroevolutionary Mechanisms of Cerebral Asymmetry in Man

LeDoux

1982

Brain Behav Evol

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Cerebral asymmetry in man has by and large been interpreted in terms of differences at the level of hemispheric organization. The inadequacy of a hemispheric interpretation as a biological account of asymmetry is discussed and a model of the neural mechanisms of cerebral asymmetry is developed. The model focuses on the functional organization of the inferior parietal cortex in human and non-human primates and accounts for the evolution and expression of cerebral asymmetry in man in terms of specific adaptations in select neural systems of ancestral primate brains.

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Role of the Right Parietal Lobe in the Mediation of Cross-Modal Associations and Reversible Operations in Space

Cited by 113 publications

References 11 publications

Psychophysiological correlates of dynamic imagery

Psychophysiological correlates of dynamic imagery

Brain Mechanisms for Directed Attention

Neuroevolutionary Mechanisms of Cerebral Asymmetry in Man

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