In the majority of investigations of representational neglect, patients are asked to report information derived from long-term visual knowledge. In contrast, studies of perceptual neglect involve reporting the contents of relatively novel scenes in the immediate environment. The present study aimed to establish how representational neglect might affect (a) immediate recall of recently perceived...

A significant association between visual field deficits (VFD) and visuo-spatial neglect is well established, although cases of double-dissociation between the two conditions are not uncommon. It has been argued that VFD typically exacerbates the behavioural manifestations of neglect. We examined a series of 51 patients with unilateral right-hemisphere stroke for the presence of visual field def...

Cube-copying is often used to assess constructional ability of brain-damaged patients and the influence of unilateral spatial neglect is often pointed out in patients with right hemisphere lesions. However, some patients with severe neglect perform cube-copying satisfactorily. The aim of the present study is to identify the factors that affect the performance of cube-copying in patients with le...

BACKGROUND Limited longitudinal research has been conducted on the impact of neglect on children's health and well-being. There is a need to consider the impact of specific subtypes of neglect on children's functioning. In addition, there is interest in examining the cumulative effect of experiencing >1 subtype of neglect. OBJECTIVE To examine the individual and cumulative relationships among...

OBJECTIVES Neglect in vertical and radial directions is rarely evaluated systematically in patients with brain damage. METHOD AND RESULTS Using the line bisection task, we confirmed that some patients with unilateral brain damage manifest vertical or radial spatial neglect. In fact, patients with severe left horizontal neglect tend to have severe vertical neglect. CONCLUSION Because vertica...

This work compared the effect of unilateral (right and left) and bilateral vestibular stimulation in a right-brain-damaged patient with neglect. Neglect was improved following left caloric vestibular stimulation, and worsened following right vestibular stimulation. On the other hand, no modification of neglect was observed after bilateral vestibular stimulation. These results support the idea t...

Perseverative behavior, manifest as re-cancelling or re-visiting targets, is distinct from spatial neglect. Perseveration is thought to reflect frontal or parietal lobe dysfunction, but the neuroanatomical correlates remain poorly defined and the interplay between neglect and perseveration is incompletely understood. We enrolled 87 consecutive patients with diffusion-weighted, perfusion-weighte...