Fishman R S
Washington Hospital Center, USA.
Doc Ophthalmol. 1995;89(1-2):173-84. doi: 10.1007/BF01203410.
David Ferrier and Hermann Munk, both pioneers in early brain research, engaged in a running controversy regarding the primary vision center in the brain. Both misinterpreted their experimental observations, but in different ways. Ferrier placed vision in the parietal lobe, Munk in the occipital lobe, However, Munk also felt he had observed a 'psychic blindness' in his animals, which was in reality only a central scotoma or other primary vision defect, and not the impairment of higher visual capacities that he proposed. Munk's concept has been repeatedly cited as the experimental correlate of visual agnosia, but is inherently fallacious.
大卫·费里尔和赫尔曼·蒙克都是早期脑研究的先驱，他们就大脑中的主要视觉中枢展开了一场持续的争论。两人都误解了他们的实验观察结果，但方式不同。费里尔认为视觉中枢在顶叶，蒙克则认为在枕叶。然而，蒙克也觉得他在自己的动物身上观察到了一种“精神性失明”，而实际上这只是一个中心暗点或其他原发性视觉缺陷，并非他所提出的更高视觉能力的损伤。蒙克的概念被反复引述为视觉失认症的实验相关，但本质上是错误的。
