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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-7-1
pubmed:abstractText
Research suggests that the severity of left spatial neglect can be modulated by changes in general alertness. Analogous effects in healthy volunteers now suggest that this may reflect an amplified form of a normal pattern. Recent neuropsychological studies also suggest that concurrent cognitive load may exacerbate rightward bias. In this study, for the first time, the authors examined the effect of both factors on spatial bias in healthy volunteers. Participants performed a task in which as many letters as possible needed to be reported from a briefly presented visual array under three conditions (alone, with a syllable-discrimination secondary task and with a pitch-discrimination secondary task). The results confirmed a significant rightward shift associated with time-on-task across all conditions--the first demonstration of such an effect within a fixation controlled, brief presentation task. While the secondary tasks influenced overall visual performance, there was no discernable effect on bias.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0894-4105
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
22
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
545-52
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Acoustic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Bias (Epidemiology), pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Cognition, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Female, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Functional Laterality, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Male, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Neuropsychological Tests, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Perceptual Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Photic Stimulation, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Pitch Discrimination, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Psychomotor Performance, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Space Perception, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Time Factors, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Verbal Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:18590365-Visual Perception
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
The effects of time-on-task and concurrent cognitive load on normal visuospatial bias.
pubmed:affiliation
UK Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, United kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't