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ERIC Number: EJ730623
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Jul
Pages: 3
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-2626
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The Effect of Hemispatial Neglect on the Perception of Centre
Olk, Bettina; Wee, Joy; Kingstone, Alan
Brain and Cognition, v55 n2 p365-367 Jul 2004
Highly variable bisection performance in neglect patients has been attributed to an increased "zone of indifference" (Marshall & Halligan, 1989). The indifference zone indicates the discrepancy between two line lengths which are judged as equal in length. Following this argumentation, the central area of a line should be expanded in neglect patients. The present two experiments investigated for the first time the expansion of the central area using a modified version of the Landmark Task. The location of a central or asymmetrical bisection mark on a horizontal line had to be judged (centre/left/right). In both experiments neglect patients, unlike healthy and patient controls, showed clear deficits in judging the location of the mark correctly and tended to judge asymmetrical marks of up to 4 cm as centrally positioned. The results are in agreement with Marshall and Halligan (1989) and provide the first clear evidence of an enlarged perceptual zone of indifference in patients with hemispatial visual neglect.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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