HEMISPATIAL

NEGLECT

unilateral

neglect

spatial neglect

neglect syndrome

neglect

HEMISPATIAL

NEGLECTegocentric

HEMISPATIAL

NEGLECTallocentric

Extinction

One circle

One circle!!!

Hemianopsia Loss of half the vision in both eyes.

Binasal hemianopsia homonymous hemianopsia

RIGHT

LEFT

RIGHTIt’s not mine!!!

Somatoparaphrenia

Cortical right brain regions that have been associated with neglect.

IPL = inferior parietal lobe

ang = angular gyrus of IPL

smg = supramarginal gyrus of IPL

TPJ = temporo-parietal junction

STG = superior temporal gyrus

IFG = inferior frontal gyrus

MFG = middle frontal gyrusParton et al (2004), Karnath et al (2001), Mort et al (2003)

Marotta et al (2002)

What does the Parietal Lobe do?

Integration of sensory information

Enables mapping of visually perceived objects to body coordinates

What can neglect tell us about cognitive functioning?

Spatial attention

Extinction Neglect

Q1: Do elementary features combine to form objects pre-attentively or attentively?

This is your target!just say if it’s there or not

Kahnaman (1973), Neisser (1967), Treisman (1988)

Neglect is an attention problem, so attentive tasks like the latter one (colour & shape variation) should be more difficult for neglect sufferers, while the earlier tasks, which required only pre-attentive processing, should be just as easy for neglect patients

Q2: Does attentional selection operate early or late

in the sequence of processing stages?

damaged right hem

isphere

intact left hemisphere

777msBerti & Rizzolatti (1992)

damaged right hem

isphere

intact left hemisphere

795msBerti & Rizzolatti (1992)

damaged right hem

isphere

intact left hemisphere

890msBerti & Rizzolatti (1992)

Summary

• Usually right lobe left neglect• PERCEPTION & ATTENTION problem,

not sense problem• damage to the ANGULAR GYRUS in the

PARIETAL lobe• Enlightening in the study of attention & in

trying to find out how much of our visual processing is pre-attentional

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