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Our knowledge of the visual sensations produced by electrical stimulation of the occipital cerebral cortex is derived from a conveniently small literature. The eight principal references and five subsidiary references given at the end of this chapter include, as far as I know, all the published work that makes any contribution to the subject.
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Brindley, G.S., Lewin, W.S.: The sensations produced by electrical stimulation of the visual cortex. J. Physiol. (Lond) 196, 479–493 (1968).
Foerster, O.: Beiträge zur Pathophysiologie der Sehsphäre. J. Psychol. Neurol. (Lpz.) 39, 463–485. Only pp. 477–481 (Case 4) and one sentence about Case 5 on p. 482 are relevant (1929).
Foerster, O.: Das occipitale Augenbewegungsfeld. In: Bumke, O., Foerster, O.: Handbuch der Neurologie, Bd. 6, S. 111–126. Berlin: Springer 1936.
Foerster, O.: Penfield, W.: Der Narbenzug am und im Gehirn bei traumatischer Epilepsie in seiner Bedeutung für das Zustandekommen der Anfälle und für die therapeutische Bekämpfung derselben. Z. ges. Neurol. Psychiat. 125, 475–572. Only pp. 506–510 (Case 4) and pp. 535–539 (Case 9) are relevant (1930).
Krause, F.: Die Sehbahnen in chirurgischer Beziehung und die faradische Reizung des Sehzentrums. Klin. Wschr. 3, 1260–1265 (1924).
Penfield, W., Jasper, H.: Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain. London: Churchill. 1954. Only pp. 116–126 and 404–406 are relevant.
Penfield, W., Rasmussen, T.: The Cerebral Cortex of Man. New York: Macmillan. 1952. Only pp. 135–147 and pp. 165–166 are relevant.
Urban, H.: Zur Physiologie der Occipitalregion des Menschen. Z. ges. Neurol. Psychiat. 158, 257–261 (1937).
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Brindley, G.S.: Ann. roy. Coll. Surg. Engl. 70, 106–108 (1970). This adds a few minor details to the account in Brindley and Lewin (1968), and gives the circuit that will be used for the second visual prosthetic implant.
Brindley, G.S., Lewin, W.S.: J. Physiol. (Lond.) 194, 54–55 P. (1967). This is a preliminary report. The whole substance of it is repeated in Brindley and Lewin (1968).
Button, J., Putnam, T.: J. Iowa St. med. Soc. 52, 17–21 (1962). This describes experimental stimulation of occipital cortex in a number of blind subjects, but reveals nothing that was not already clear from the earlier work of Krause, Foerster, Penfield and Urban.
Krause, F., Schum, H.: Neue dtsch. Chir. 49 a, 482–486 (1931). These pages reprint with minor amendments Krause’s paper of 1924.
Löwenstein, K., Borchardt, M.: Dtsch. Z. Nervenheilk. 58, 264–292. (1918). During an operation for removal of bone fragments remaining after a bullet wound, the left occipital lobe was stimulated electrically. The patient saw flickering in the right half of the visual field.
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Brindley, G.S. (1973). Sensory Effects of Electrical Stimulation of the Visual and Paravisual Cortex in Man. In: Jung, R. (eds) Visual Centers in the Brain. Handbook of Sensory Physiology, vol 7 / 3 / 3 B. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65495-4_14
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