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17938372

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
16
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-10-16
pubmed:abstractText
Human eyes are a powerful social cue that may automatically attract the attention of an observer. Here we tested whether looking toward open human eyes, as often arises in standard clinical "confrontation" tests, may affect contralesional errors in a group of right brain-damaged patients showing visual extinction. Patients were requested to discriminate peripheral shape-targets presented on the left, right, or bilaterally. On each trial they also saw a central task-irrelevant stimulus, comprising an image of the eye sector of a human face, with those seen eyes open or closed. The conditions with central eye stimuli open (vs closed) induced more errors for contralesional peripheral targets, particularly for bilateral trials. These results suggest that seeing open eyes in central vision may attract attentional resources there, reducing attention to the periphery, particularly for the affected contralesional side. The seen gaze of the examiner may thus need to be considered during confrontation testing and may contribute to the effectiveness of that clinical procedure.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1526-632X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
16
pubmed:volume
69
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1619-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-6-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Looking at human eyes affects contralesional stimulus processing after right hemispheric stroke.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universitá di Milano-Bicocca, Via dell'Innovazione, 10, 20126, Milano, Italy. angelo.maravita@unimib.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't