Akinetopsia: a systematic review on visual motion blindness
Johanna L. Browne, Lydia Krabbendam, Jan Dirk Blom · 2025
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Johanna Browne and co-authors review motion blindness, a rare failure of visual perception, in a paper published in 2024. People with akinetopsia see moving things as a string of frozen frames instead of smooth flow. The condition is a known feature of Alice in Wonderland syndrome and can wreck daily tasks like crossing a street.
The review gathers twenty-five clinical cases and twenty-seven cases induced by brain stimulation in labs. Half the clinical cases had lasting or worsening symptoms, and most traced to stroke or degenerative disease, with fewer from poisons or seizure disorders. Damage on both sides of the motion area of the cortex most often meant total, lasting blindness to motion. Right-side damage loomed larger in real cases than lab work suggested. Treatment reports stayed thin, and the authors map what remains unknown.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Johanna L. Browne, Lydia Krabbendam, Jan Dirk Blom |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |