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Volume 17, Number 2, Issue of January 15, 1997 pp. 804-818
Copyright ©1997 Society for Neuroscience

Detection and Discrimination of First- and Second-Order Motion in Patients with Unilateral Brain Damage

Received July 15, 1996; revised Oct. 25, 1996; accepted Nov. 1, 1996.

Mark W. Greenlee¹ and Andy T. Smith²

¹ Neurologische Universitätsklinik, Freiburg, Germany, and ² Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway College, University of London, Egham, Surrey, United Kingdom

The present investigation explored the extent to which extrastriate cortex is necessary for various aspects of motion processing and whether the processing of first-order (Fourier) and second-order (non-Fourier) motion involves the same extrastriate cortical regions. Orientation, direction, and speed discrimination thresholds were measured in 21 patients with unilateral damage to the lateral occipital, temporal, or posterior parietal cortex. Their results were compared with those of 14 age-matched control subjects. The stimuli were static random-dot noise patterns, the luminance of which (first-order) or contrast (second-order) was modulated by a drifting sinusoid. Each image was presented at an eccentricity of 5.6 deg in one of the four visual quadrants. The contrasts required to identify orientation and direction were measured in a forced-choice paradigm for three speeds (1.5, 3, and 6 deg/sec). Speed discrimination performance was measured for stimuli presented simultaneously in two of the four quadrants. The results indicate the following: (1) orientation thresholds were increased only slightly in the patients; (2) direction thresholds were modestly elevated, and this effect was more pronounced for second-order stimuli than for first-order stimuli; (3) speed discrimination thresholds were elevated significantly in the patients with lesions in the region bordering superior-temporal and lateral-occipital cortex; and (4) speed discrimination thresholds for first-order stimuli were more elevated than those for second-order stimuli. The results suggest that there is substantial overlap in the cortical areas involved in first- and second-order speed discrimination.

Key words: motion perception; direction discrimination; speed discrimination; second-order motion; human cortex; contrast sensitivity; spatiotemporal vision; psychophysics

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