title: Where is the "straight ahead" in spatial neglect?
abstract: We investigated the subjective straight-ahead (SSA) projection of body-midline parts (head and trunk) in patients with neglect and patients with nonneglect, using a method disentangling lateral shift and lateral tilt components of the bias. Patients with neglect showed a similar counterclockwise SSA tilt for each body part and an ipsilesional lateral shift, more severe for the trunk than for the head. Thus, neglect results in a tilt of the body midline representation.
authors.affiliation: Service de Rééducation Neurologique, Hôpital Swynghedauw, CHRU, 59037 Lille Cedex, France. a-saj@chru-lille.fr
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Saj
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Honoré
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Richard
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Coello
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bernati
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rousseaux
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention; D001828:Body Image; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009949:Orientation; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D013028:Space Perception