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Should the superficial superior colliculus be part of Merker's mesodiencephalic system?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2007
Abstract
The superficial superior colliculus appears to be a primitive visual analyzer whose function has been taken over by the visual cortex, most completely in man. The phenomenon of blindsight shows that, although intact, the superior colliculus cannot by itself provide conscious perception in human patients. Is it possible that, in anencephalic children, it recovers the role it had in lower mammals?
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