Jason G W, Cowey A, Weiskrantz L
Neuropsychologia. 1984;22(6):777-84. doi: 10.1016/0028-3932(84)90102-7.
The hypothesis that hemispheric asymmetries for visuo-spatial ability exist in rhesus monkeys was tested using a task for which the right hemisphere is specialized in man. The task required discrimination between two squares, one containing a central dot and the other a dot displaced upwards from centre. The animals' thresholds were determined before and after left-sided (LH-lesion) or right-sided (RH-lesion) unilateral occipital lobectomy combined with splenial transection, and the percentage change in threshold calculated. The LH-lesion monkeys were all worse than the RH-lesion monkeys on this measure, indicating the existence of a functional asymmetry.
利用一项人类右半球专门负责的任务,对恒河猴视觉空间能力存在半球不对称性这一假设进行了测试。该任务要求区分两个正方形,一个正方形中心有一个点,另一个正方形的点从中心向上偏移。在左侧(左半球损伤)或右侧(右半球损伤)单侧枕叶切除术并联合胼胝体横切术前后,测定动物的阈值,并计算阈值的百分比变化。在这项测试中,左半球损伤的猴子比右半球损伤的猴子表现更差,这表明存在功能不对称性。