The visual fields: an interdisciplinary history I. The evolution of knowledge. Academic Article

abstract

• A subjective study of a hemianopic field defect was reported to the London Royal Society in 1824. The German ophthalmologist Albrecht von Graefe devised a means of mapping field defects, which evolved into quantitative perimetry as an exact method of localizing lesions in the visual pathways. Knowledge of these pathways increased during the nineteenth century; final identification of the visual cortex in the occipital lobe was achieved by Japanese and British ophthalmologists and neurologists on the basis of wartime studies of field defects due to cerebral missile wounds.

authors

• Crompton, John

published proceedings

• J Clin Neurosci

author list (cited authors)

• Simpson, D. A., & Crompton, J. L.

citation count

• 6

complete list of authors

• Simpson, DA||Crompton, JL

publication date

• February 2008

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Clinical Neuroscience  Journal

keywords

• Biological Evolution
• Hemianopsia
• History, 17th Century
• History, 18th Century
• History, 19th Century
• History, 20th Century
• Humans
• Knowledge
• Visual Cortex
• Visual Fields
• Visual Pathways

PubMed Central ID

• 18162210

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.jocn.2007.09.005

start page

• 101

end page

• 110

volume

• 15

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jocn.2007.09.005