Unilateral neglect in route description.
Route description was investigated in two patients suffering from left unilateral neglect. Both had evident difficulty with left turns. This finding suggests that the topological correspondence between represented environment and representational mechanisms in the brain is not confined to frozen (picture-like) perspectives.
Bisiach
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Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Italy.
Brouchon
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Poncet
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Rusconi
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D000368:Aged; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008377:Maps as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*