Vision in the Temporal Crescent in Occipital Infarction

Four patients with hemianopias due to occipital infarction are described. In each of these patients there was useful residual vision in the unpaired temporal crescent. Moving stimuli were particularly well perceived in this part of the field. Preservation of the temporal crescent results in strikingly incongruous fields. The significance of this part of the visual field is discussed in relation to perception of movement and to the fixation reflex, and also with regard to recent reports of residual visual ability in patients with striate cortex lesions, and to the possible role of the monocular temporal field in striate and tectal visual systems.