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  • Title: Form completion across a hemianopic boundary: behindsight?
    Author: McCarthy RA, James-Galton M, Plant GT.
    Journal: Neuropsychologia; 2006; 44(8):1269-81. PubMed ID: 16595140.
    Abstract:
    Patients with homonymous hemianopia may report the completion of forms that overlap the vertical meridian of their field defects. While previous investigations of "hemianopic completion" have variously attributed to the disorder to inattention, residual vision or unstable fixation, we believe that our investigation has controlled for such potentially confounding factors. We report patient P.O.V. who experienced hemianopic completion in everyday life following a surgical lesion of his left occipital lobe. He showed normal spatial attention and normal spatial orienting: hemianopic completion can therefore occur in the absence of inattention. His completion was retinotopic and affected partial as well as complete forms: his hemianopic completion cannot be attributed to residual visual input or poor fixation. P.O.V.'s completion was also systematically affected by varying stimulus contrast and pattern masking. We argue that while other explanations may be appropriate for different cases, P.O.V.'s hemianopic completion reflects normal "constructive" visual processes and can be attributed to the unconstrained operation of visual routines that are normally involved in the perception of partially occluded forms. As such, this disorder has the potential to shed light on some of the most basic aspects of visual perception.
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