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Near and far visual space in unilateral neglect

Published inAnnals of neurology, vol. 43, no. 3, p. 406-410
Publication date1998
Abstract

A 24-year-old right-handed woman with a right temporal hematoma showed marked left visual neglect for far but not near space in a variety of tasks systematically given in near and far distance conditions. This case thus provides the dissociation opposite to Halligan and Marshall's patient, who had neglect for near but not far space after a right parietal stroke. Furthermore, although she made rightward errors in bisecting far-distant lines, our patient made smaller opposite leftward errors for near-distant lines. The evidence that unilateral neglect of far and near visual space may exist independently supports a division in the neural systems subserving attention to different compartments of the extrapersonal space in humans.

Keywords
  • Adult
  • Attention/ physiology
  • Cerebral Hemorrhage/diagnosis/ physiopathology
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality/physiology
  • Hematoma/diagnosis/ physiopathology
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Neuropsychological Tests
  • Visual Perception/ physiology
Citation (ISO format)
VUILLEUMIER, Patrik et al. Near and far visual space in unilateral neglect. In: Annals of neurology, 1998, vol. 43, n° 3, p. 406–410. doi: 10.1002/ana.410430324
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