Scientific article
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Priming of color and position during visual search in unilateral spatial neglect

Published inJournal of cognitive neuroscience, vol. 17, no. 6, p. 859-873
Publication date2005
Abstract

We examined priming of visual search by repeated target location or color in two patients with left visual neglect and extinction, following strokes centered on the right inferior parietal lobe. Both patients, like the healthy controls we tested, showed intact priming, with performance speeded when either the location or color of a singleton target was repeated over successive trials in a standard search condition (Experiment 1). This was observed both from and to targets on the contralesional (left) side. Moreover, priming of search was still observed even when a return of fixation back to display-center was required between successive trials (Experiment 2). When briefer displays were used (Experiment 3), the patients often failed to detect left targets. This situation revealed an important dissociation: Whereas location priming only arose from preceding left targets that had been consciously detected, color priming (possibly arising within the intact ventral stream) did not depend on awareness of the preceding target. There was considerable color priming from missed targets. These findings demonstrate relatively intact priming of visual search by color and location in patients with right parietal damage, and also reveal that location priming may differ from color priming in requiring awareness.

Keywords
  • Aged
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Attention/ physiology
  • Awareness/physiology
  • Brain Damage, Chronic/etiology/physiopathology
  • Color Perception/physiology
  • Eye Movements/physiology
  • Female
  • Fixation, Ocular/physiology
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Parietal Lobe/ physiology/physiopathology
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual/ physiology
  • Perceptual Disorders/etiology/ physiopathology
  • Reaction Time/ physiology
  • Reference Values
  • Stroke/complications/physiopathology
  • Time Factors
  • Visual Pathways/physiology
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Citation (ISO format)
KRISTJANSSON, Arni et al. Priming of color and position during visual search in unilateral spatial neglect. In: Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2005, vol. 17, n° 6, p. 859–873. doi: 10.1162/0898929054021148
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