Role of a lateralized parietal-basal ganglia circuit in hierarchical pattern perception: Evidence from Parkinson's disease.
- 1 February 2009
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Behavioral Neuroscience
- Vol. 123 (1), 125-136
- https://doi.org/10.1037/a0013734
Abstract
The role of corticostriatal circuits in hierarchical pattern perception was examined in Parkinson's disease. The hypothesis was tested that patients with right-side onset of motor symptoms (RPD, left hemisphere dysfunction) would be impaired at local level processing because the left posterior temporoparietal junction (TP) emphasizes processing of local information. By contrast, left-side onset patients (LPD; right hemisphere dysfunction) would show impaired global processing because right TP emphasizes global processing. Participants identified targets at local or global levels without and with attention biased toward those levels. Despite normal attentional control between levels, LPD patients showed a single dissociation, demonstrating abnormal global level processing under all conditions, whereas RPD patients showed abnormal local level processing mainly when attention was biased toward the local level. These findings link side of motor symptom onset to visuospatial cognitive abilities that depend upon the contralateral TP, highlighting that side of onset can predict visuospatial impairments, and provide evidence that an inferior parietal-basal ganglia pathway involving the caudate head and the hemispherically asymmetrical TP region is necessary for hierarchical pattern perception.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute on Aging (T32AG00220, F32-AG005914)
- Sigma Xi
- Boston University
- National Institute of Mental Health (R21 MH66213)
- Tufts University
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01 NS052914)
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