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  • Title: Visually guided locomotion, distractibility, and the missing-stimulus effect in hooded rats with unilateral or bilateral lesions of parietal cortex.
    Author: Foreman N, Save E, Thinus-Blanc C, Buhot MC.
    Journal: Behav Neurosci; 1992 Jun; 106(3):529-38. PubMed ID: 1616618.
    Abstract:
    When hooded rats with bilateral lesions of Krieg's area 7 (parietal cortex) were trained to locomote toward visual targets in a runway, they ran less accurately than did controls, although unilaterals ran accurately. When flashing lights were presented unexpectedly during their run, bilateral parietals were less disrupted than were controls, but they failed to show total neglect. Unilateral paritals turned toward distracters on either side but turned preferentially toward distracters contralateral to the intact hemisphere, particularly when distracters occurred bilaterally and simultaneously. Effects due to the omission of expected distracters were similar in parietals and controls. Rat parietal cortex is not essential for the redirection of attention to stimuli notable for their unexpected presence or absence, but parietal cortex may resolve interhemispheric competition. The results suggest a homology between parietal cortex in rat and primate.
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