Thirumal Appaswamy Prabhakar, George Abraham Ninan, Anupama Roy, Sharath Kumar, Kavitha Margabandhu, Jessica Michael, Deepti Bal, Pavithra Mannam, Allison M McKendrick, Olivia Carter, Marta I Garrido
Stable visual perception, while we are moving, depends on complex interactions between multiple brain regions. We report a patient with damage to the right occipital and temporal lobes who presented with a visual disturbance of inward movement of roadside buildings towards the centre of his visual field, that occurred only when he moved forward on his motorbike. We describe this phenomenon as "self-motion induced environmental kinetopsia". Additionally, he was identified to have another illusion, in which objects displayed on the screen, appeared to pop out of the background...
February 7, 2024: Neuropsychologia