title: Spatially specific and non-lateralised attention deficits in patients with perceptual and premotor neglect.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The relationship of spatially specific and non-lateralised attentional deficits to perceptual and premotor neglect was explored in 25 patients with chronic neglect. The association between severity of neglect and attention deficits was also studied.
  
  
  METHODS
  Alertness, selective attention and exploration performance were assessed using a battery of computerised and paper-pencil tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Perceptual and premotor neglect groups differed in the manifestation of attention deficits in the contralesional and ipsilesional hemispace. Differences in the performance time and accuracy were observed to be a function of neglect severity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Paper-pencil tests were more sensitive to assess attention deficits in patients with different neglect types and severities of neglect than computerised tests. Therefore, diagnostic evaluation should include both paper-pencil and computerised assessments in order to identify spatially specific as well as non-lateralised attentional deficits.
authors: Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Medical Faculty, Institute of Medical Psychology, Magdeburg, Germany.
authors: Maria
authors: M
authors: de Los Angeles Hoffmann
authors: Carolin
authors: C
authors: Gall
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Kaufmann
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Fydrich
authors: Erich
authors: E
authors: Kasten
authors: Bernhard
authors: B
authors: Sabel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000150:complications*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic