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Case Reports
. 1975 Jun;38(6):546-9.
doi: 10.1136/jnnp.38.6.546.

Hemianopic colour blindness

M L Albert, A Reches, R Silverberg
Case Reports

Hemianopic colour blindness

M L Albert et al. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 1975 Jun.

Abstract

A man developed cortical blindness after cerebral infarction in the distribution of both posterior cerebral arteries. When he recovered from this condition, he was found to be colour blind in the left visual field, but not in the right. This unusual situation resulted in apparently contradictory performances on hemifield and free-field tasks of colour discrimination, naming, and recognition. The contradictions may be explained by interhemispheric competition between a hemisphere which could discriminate colours and a hemisphere which was colour blind.

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