| Assessing the weights of visual neglect: a new approach to dissociate defective symptoms from productive phenomena in length estimation. | |
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PMID: 20621108 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Right hemisphere damage often provokes signs of visual neglect, characterized by a prominent left-right imbalance in information processing. Neglect patients are biased towards right-sided objects and ignore left-sided events. Left-right imbalance may not only result from left neglect but also from right attraction, which have been considered as, respectively, defective and productive phenomena in neglect patients. However, the relative contributions of these two mechanisms to the final left-right imbalance remain uncertain. Using a novel experimental paradigm, we were able to separately test the contribution of left neglect and right attraction to neglect behavior. We used horizontal and vertical lines implemented in L shapes in a line extension task. The use of L shapes oriented either to the left or to the right made it possible to measure the left bias by comparing the length of a left-sided horizontal line to that of a centered vertical line, and to measure the right bias by comparing a centered vertical to a rightwards horizontal line. Our results showed that, in this experimental set, the left-right discrepancy is supported more by left neglect than by right attraction, with important implications about the role of left-right competition on the deployment of left neglect and right attraction. |
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Authors:
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Pom Charras; Juan Lupiáñez; Paolo Bartolomeo |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2010-07-17 |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Neuropsychologia Volume: 48 ISSN: 1873-3514 ISO Abbreviation: Neuropsychologia Publication Date: 2010 Sep |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-08-23 Completed Date: 2010-12-08 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 0020713 Medline TA: Neuropsychologia Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 3371-5 Citation Subset: IM |
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Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Affiliation:
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Departamento de Psicología Experimental y de Fisiología del Comportamiento, Universidad de Granada, Spain. pomcharras@ugr.es |
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Adult Aged Female Functional Laterality / physiology Hemianopsia / psychology Humans Male Middle Aged Perceptual Disorders / diagnosis*, psychology* Photic Stimulation Visual Fields / physiology Visual Perception / physiology* |
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