submitted by Thea Kluge
Face-blindness is when you are unable to recognize other humans by their faces in spite of having good eye sight.
submitted by Thea Kluge
This is the inability to perceive motion in a changing visual environment. Moving ojects are seen as a series of stationary images. The lesions are usually bilateral in the occipital cortex.
submitted by Thea Kluge
“Scabrous points of decay on the right side of the brain divorce, so it’s thought, the recognitive from the emotive. Whilst you may recognise the face of your lover or father or brother there is no emotional response and it is this which leads to the peculiar features of Capgrass where the person thinks their family is full of impostors…”
submitted by Matthew Martin
Interesting information on eye-movement control. Posits that the brain sees only one thing at a time.
submitted by Richard Yoo
Experiments were done on split-brain patients whom had undergone a Corpus Callosotomy (In which the left and right hemisphere in the brain are separated due to severe epilepsy).
submitted by Matthew Martin
Not all related to the visual system, but I thought a few of these cases were interesting to read about.