title: Anti-extinction in the tactile modality.
abstract: Patients with extinction fail to report a contralesional stimulus when it is presented at the same time as an ipsilesional stimulus, and patients with unilateral neglect fail to report a contralesional stimulus even when there is no competing ipsilesional stimulus. Whereas extinction and neglect are common following stroke, the related phenomenon of anti-extinction is rare--there are four cases of anti-extinction in the literature, and all four cases demonstrated anti-extinction in the visual modality. Patients with anti-extinction do report a contralesional stimulus when it is presented at the same time as an ipsilesional stimulus; but, like patients with neglect, they fail to report a contralesional stimulus when there is no competing ipsilesional stimulus. We present the first case ofanti-extinction in the tactile modality.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. Rebekah.White@psy.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: Rebekah C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: White
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK.
authors.forename: Anne M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Aimola Davies
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D007839:Functional Laterality; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D020244:Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D014110:Touch