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6664478

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-3-12
pubmed:abstractText
Heilman and Valenstein recently failed to reduce unilateral neglect, assessed by a line bisection task, by cueing patients to attend to their neglected field. Cueing was accomplished by placing letters at both ends of the line and instructing subjects to identify either the right or left hand letter prior to bisecting the line. The present experiments tested whether this failure to improve neglect occurred because patients were presented with competing stimuli in their neglected and non-neglected fields. Five patients with unilateral neglect and hemianopia took part in two experiments. The results showed a marked decrease in neglect when subjects were cued and forced to report stimuli in their neglected field. This occurred even when there was a competing stimulus in the non-neglected field. However, in the absence of forced report requirements, patients oriented to stimuli in the non-neglected field. The results are interpreted as a failure of patients with unilateral neglect to orient automatically to the side of space contralateral to the lesion, though processes governing the conscious orienting of attention are intact.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0028-3932
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
589-99
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
The effect of cueing on unilateral neglect.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't