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SUBMITTER: Bridge H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6533062 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bridge Holly H Bell Andrew H AH Ainsworth Matthew M Sallet Jerome J Premereur Elsie E Ahmed Bashir B Mitchell Anna S AS Schüffelgen Urs U Buckley Mark M Tendler Benjamin C BC Miller Karla L KL Mars Rogier B RB Parker Andrew J AJ Krug Kristine K
eLife 20190523
Lesions of primary visual cortex (V1) lead to loss of conscious visual perception with significant impact on human patients. Understanding the neural consequences of such damage may aid the development of rehabilitation methods. In this rare case of a Rhesus macaque (monkey S), likely born without V1, the animal's in-group behaviour was unremarkable, but visual task training was impaired. With multi-modal magnetic resonance imaging, visual structures outside of the lesion appeared normal. Visual ...[more]