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Results of a longitudinal
midline section of the optic
chiasm: The subject is blind in
the two darker wedge-shaped
areas at the extreme left and
right. Between, in the more
lightly shaded areas, stereopsis
will be absent, except in the
wedge-shaped region beyond P,
where there will be no vision at
all, and in front of P, where
stereopsis will be intact.
A second, closely related
problem is to predict what
deficit in stereopsis would
result from a midline section of
your optic chiasm, such as
Ronald Meyers made in cats.
This problem is in some ways
the opposite of the previous
one. From the figure to the left
you can see that each eye will
be blind in its nasal retina, or
its temporal visual field, and so
you obviously will have no
stereopsis in the lightly shaded
areas, where normally it is
present. Out beyond this area
only one eye can see at a time,
so stereopsis is absent even
normally; now, however, you
will be blind in that region, as
indicated by the darker
shading. In the area beyond the
fixation point, where the blind
temporal fields overlap, you
will also be blind. Closer than
the fixation point, however,
your intact visual fields
overlap, and stereopsis should
be present, provided your
corpus callosum is normal.
Again, Colin Blakemore found a
patient who had fractured his
skull as a boy in a bicycle
accident and as a consequence
apparently sustained a perfect
midline section of his optic
chiasm. When tested, he proved
to have exactly this curious
combination of defects and
abilities.