Unilateral neglect, representational schema and consciousness.
Right brain-damaged patients with unilateral neglect were asked to detect differences within pairs of patterns moving left- or rightward behind a narrow vertical slit. It was seen that differences occurring on the left side of the mentally reconstructed images were less easily detected; therefore it is suggested that a representational disorder plays a primary role in unilateral neglect. In the light of these findings, it is possible to take into consideration some implications of unilateral neglect for theories of conscious brain activity.
D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception