TY - JOUR
T1 - Visual recognition and visually guided action after early bilateral lesion of occipital cortex
T2 - A behavioral study of a 4.6-year-old girl
AU - Amicuzi, Ileana
AU - Stortini, Massimo
AU - Petrarca, Maurizio
AU - Di Giulio, Paola
AU - Di Rosa, Giuseppe
AU - Fariello, Giuseppe
AU - Longo, Daniela
AU - Cannatà, Vittorio
AU - Genovese, Elisabetta
AU - Castelli, Enrico
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - We report the case of a 4.6-year-old girl born pre-term with early bilateral occipital damage. It was revealed that the child had non-severely impaired basic visual abilities and ocular motility, a selective perceptual deficit of figure-ground segregation, impaired visual recognition and abnormal navigating through space. Even if the child's visual functioning was not optimal, this was the expression of adaptive anatomic and functional brain modifications that occurred following the early lesion. Anatomic brain structure was studied with anatomic MRI and Diffusor Tensor Imaging (DTI)-MRI. This behavioral study may provide an important contribution to understanding the impact of an early lesion of the visual system on the development of visual functions and on the immature brain's potential for reorganisation related to when the damage occurred.
AB - We report the case of a 4.6-year-old girl born pre-term with early bilateral occipital damage. It was revealed that the child had non-severely impaired basic visual abilities and ocular motility, a selective perceptual deficit of figure-ground segregation, impaired visual recognition and abnormal navigating through space. Even if the child's visual functioning was not optimal, this was the expression of adaptive anatomic and functional brain modifications that occurred following the early lesion. Anatomic brain structure was studied with anatomic MRI and Diffusor Tensor Imaging (DTI)-MRI. This behavioral study may provide an important contribution to understanding the impact of an early lesion of the visual system on the development of visual functions and on the immature brain's potential for reorganisation related to when the damage occurred.
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U2 - 10.1080/13554790601026106
DO - 10.1080/13554790601026106
M3 - Article
C2 - 17190747
AN - SCOPUS:33845932573
SN - 1355-4794
VL - 12
SP - 263
EP - 279
JO - Neurocase
JF - Neurocase
IS - 5
ER -