An objective psychophysical technique for investigating visual fields by averaged scalp potentials evoked by pattern gratings of alternating contrast and by sinusoidally modulated flickering light is applied to a child with a right homonomous hemianopsia. This technique illustrates a value in obtaining clinical data on visual fields in situations where subjective perimetry is difficult to administer or where conservative diagnostic methods do not yield evidence of pathology.
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