Petrides M, Iversen S D
Brain Res. 1979 Jan 26;161(1):63-77. doi: 10.1016/0006-8993(79)90196-3.
Monkeys with lesions restricted to the inferior parietal lobule or the banks and depths of the superior temporal sulcus were tested on a route-following task. These areas are considered on neuroanatomical grounds to be homologous to parts of the human posterior parietal cortex, where lesions produce profound spatial disorientation. The operated monkeys were impaired on the route task, thus confirming at the behavioural level the anatomical predictions of comparability between parietal cortex in monkey and that in man. The monkeys were not impaired, however, on a visual pattern discrimination or on a visual-spatial task with cue and response separation, a task that was considered on the basis of previous investigations with extensive posterior lesions in the monkey to be sensitive to parietal lesions.
对病变局限于顶下小叶或颞上沟脑回及深部的猴子进行了路线跟踪任务测试。基于神经解剖学依据，这些区域被认为与人类后顶叶皮质的部分区域同源，人类后顶叶皮质受损会导致严重的空间定向障碍。接受手术的猴子在路线任务中表现受损，从而在行为层面证实了猴子和人类顶叶皮质之间解剖学上的可比性预测。然而，这些猴子在视觉模式辨别或视觉空间任务（提示与反应分离）中并未受损，根据之前对猴子广泛后脑部病变的研究，该任务被认为对顶叶病变敏感。
