Dudkin K N, Chueva I V, Makarov F N, Orlov I V
I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology of the Russian Acad. Sci., St. Petersburg, Russia.
Ross Fiziol Zh Im I M Sechenova. 1998 Mar;84(3):145-56.
Removal of the rhesus monkey parietal cortex 7th field exerted no effect on learning processes involving visual discrimination of images united in their colour and geometrical form, but the learning of differentiating the spatial information did suffer. The data obtained suggests that, in the process of learning visual differentiation, spatial differentiating signs are formed, the process involving neuronal structures of the 7th field of the inferior cortex. Removal of the 7th field disrupts mechanisms of the body scheme assession and egocentric orientation resulting from visual-vestibular interrelationships.
