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Ardonceau V, Poulin-Charronnat B, Bonnet C, Sirandré C, Michel-Colent C. Vertical prism adaptation, but not sound presentation, modulates the visuospatial representation: A manual line-bisection study. Cortex 2024; 177:330-345. [PMID: 38908363 DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2023] [Revised: 04/04/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/24/2024]
Abstract
The present study aimed at testing whether vertical prism adaptation (PA) can modulate vertical visuospatial representation, assessed with a vertical manual line-bisection (MLB) task (Experiment 1). In a second time, we wanted to investigate the potential influence of sound presentation during such a task. Sound is a spatially valued element that has previously been reported to modify horizontal visuospatial representation. In Experiment 2, we presented either a high pitch, a low pitch, or no sound during the same MLB as in Experiment 1. With this experiment, we also searched for an eventual interaction between the effect of sound presentation and the potential cognitive aftereffects of vertical PA on visual representation. Both Experiments 1 and 2 were constructed with the same design and conducted with two distinct groups of young healthy right-handed participants. First, we assessed the initial sensorimotor state with an open-loop pointing task, and the initial representational state through a vertical MLB (with addition of sound for Experiment 2). Then participants were submitted to a 16-minute PA procedure and were tested again on the open-loop pointing task and the MLB to assess the aftereffects following prism removal. Our results showed sensorimotor aftereffects following both upward and downward PA, in a direction opposed to the optical deviation used. The early aftereffects measured following PA were symmetrical, but at the end of the experiment the residual aftereffects were smaller following downward PA than upward PA. We also provide a new insight on the aftereffects of vertical PA on visuospatial representation, showing that downward PA (but not upward PA) can produce an upward bias on the manual line-bisection task. This is the first proof of such cognitive aftereffects following vertical PA. However, we found no effect of sound presentation on the vertical visual space representation and no interaction between PA and sound presentation.
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- Vincent Ardonceau
- Inserm U1093 - CAPS, Université de Bourgogne, UFR des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France.
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- Inserm U1093 - CAPS, Université de Bourgogne, UFR des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France
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- Inserm U1093 - CAPS, Université de Bourgogne, UFR des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France
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Strauch C, Hoogerbrugge AJ, Ten Brink AF. Gaze data of 4243 participants shows link between leftward and superior attention biases and age. Exp Brain Res 2024; 242:1327-1337. [PMID: 38555556 PMCID: PMC11108882 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-024-06823-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2024] [Accepted: 03/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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Healthy individuals typically show more attention to the left than to the right (known as pseudoneglect), and to the upper than to the lower visual field (known as altitudinal pseudoneglect). These biases are thought to reflect asymmetries in neural processes. Attention biases have been used to investigate how these neural asymmetries change with age. However, inconsistent results have been reported regarding the presence and direction of age-related effects on horizontal and vertical attention biases. The observed inconsistencies may be due to insensitive measures and small sample sizes, that usually only feature extreme age groups. We investigated whether spatial attention biases, as indexed by gaze position during free viewing of a single image, are influenced by age. We analysed free-viewing data from 4,243 participants aged 5-65 years and found that attention biases shifted to the right and superior directions with increasing age. These findings are consistent with the idea of developing cerebral asymmetries with age and support the hypothesis of the origin of the leftward bias. Age modulations were found only for the first seven fixations, corresponding to the time window in which an absolute leftward bias in free viewing was previously observed. We interpret this as evidence that the horizontal and vertical attention biases are primarily present when orienting attention to a novel stimulus - and that age modulations of attention orienting are not global modulations of spatial attention. Taken together, our results suggest that attention orienting may be modulated by age and that cortical asymmetries may change with age.
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- Christoph Strauch
- Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Heidelberglaan 1, Utrecht, 3584CS, The Netherlands.
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- Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Heidelberglaan 1, Utrecht, 3584CS, The Netherlands
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- Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Helmholtz Institute, Heidelberglaan 1, Utrecht, 3584CS, The Netherlands
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Bultitude JH, Ten Brink AF. Exploring bias in horizontal and vertical spatial representations using mental number lines and the greyscales task. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2024; 243:104115. [PMID: 38228071 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2023.104115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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People have a leftward bias when making visuospatial judgements about horizontally arranged stimuli ("pseudoneglect"), and a superior bias when making visuospatial judgements about vertically arranged stimuli. The leftward visuospatial bias in physical space seems to extend to the mental representation of space. However, whether any bias exists in mental representation of vertical space is unknown. We investigated whether people show a visuospatial bias in the mental representation of vertical space, and if any bias in mental representations of horizontal and vertical space related to the extent of bias in physical space. Participants (n = 171) were presented with three numbers and asked which interval was smaller/larger (counterbalanced): the interval between the first and middle, or middle and last number. Participants were instructed to either think of the numbers as houses on a street or as floors of a building, or were given no imagery instructions. Participants in the houses on a street condition showed a leftward bias, but there was no superior bias in the floors of a building condition. In contrast, we replicated previous findings of leftward and superior bias on greyscales tasks. Our findings reinforce previous evidence that numbers are represented horizontally and ascending left to right by default.
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- Janet H Bultitude
- Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom; Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom; Centre for Pain Research, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom; Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Ricci M, Iavarone A, Ilardi CR, Chieffi S. Influence of hand starting position on radial line bisection. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1293624. [PMID: 38144997 PMCID: PMC10748601 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1293624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023] Open
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When normal individuals are asked to localize and mark the midpoint of a radial line, they tend to bisect it farther than the true center. It has been suggested that radial misbisection depends on the presence of a visual attentional bias directed toward the far space. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the localization of the center of radial lines was affected by the starting position of the hand. There were two starting positions: one between the body and the radial line ("near"), the other beyond the radial line ("far"). Thirty-four subjects participated in the experiment. The results showed that (i) participants bisected radial lines farther than the true center, measured with reference to their body, in both near and far condition, and (ii) bisection errors in the near condition were greater than those in the far condition. We suggest that hand starting position and direction of ongoing movement influenced radial line misbisection by modulating visual attentional bias directed to far space.
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- Mariateresa Ricci
- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples, Italy
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Pan L, Huang X. The influence of spatial location on temporal order perception. CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s12144-022-04225-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/06/2023]
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Yamashita H. Impact of aging on perceptual asymmetries for horizontal and vertical stimuli in the greyscales task. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. ADULT 2023; 30:143-152. [PMID: 33962525 DOI: 10.1080/23279095.2021.1917577] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Through the paper version of the grayscale task, this study examines the impact of aging and gender on horizontal and vertical pseudoneglect in healthy right-handed Japanese people. Participants included 168 (84 women and 84 men) healthy right-handed participants between the ages of 18 and 85, which were divided into three age cohorts (i.e., young, middle, and older). When administering the task, in the horizontal condition, the stimulus set of the grayscale task waspositioned at the center of the desk. In the vertical condition, the stimulus set was placed at the participants' eye level on the front screen. A reliable left bias was observed across all age groups in the horizontal task, although individual differences in the young group were significant. Moreover, gender differences and age-gender interactions were not confirmed. Similarly, in the vertical task, an upward bias was identified in both women and men across all age groups. Furthermore, there was a weak correlation between the horizontal and vertical bias index. These results were inconsistent with those of a previous study and other research using manual line bisection and landmark tasks. Further, we comprehensively deliberated on the cognitive/neural basis of horizontal and vertical pseudoneglect.
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- Hikari Yamashita
- Faculty of Education, Kansai University of Welfare Sciences, Kashiwara, Japan
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Chapin BA, Pisanuwongrak K, Williamson JB, Heilman KM. Vertical pseudoneglect: Sensory-attentional versus action-intentional. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2022; 44:163-170. [PMID: 35819050 DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2022.2098934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Healthy persons demonstrate an upward bias on the vertical-line bisection test (vertical or "altitudinal" pseudoneglect). This bias might be sensory-attentional or action-intentional in origin. To test the action-intention hypothesis, we analyze whether the direction of action has an effect on altitudinal pseudoneglect. METHODS Twenty-four healthy right-handed adults performed vertical-line bisection on an apparatus designed to distinguish the effects of sensory-attention and action-intention. Depending on hand placement, participants estimated line midpoints with a marker that moved in the same (congruent) or opposite (incongruent) direction as their hand movements. Two binary factors - hand movement in the upward versus downward direction and congruent vs incongruent hand movements - produced four conditions. RESULTS There was upward deviation from the midline across all conditions. Bisections in the incongruent condition were higher than in the congruent condition. Bisections were also higher with upward hand movements than with downward hand movements. There was not a significant interaction between these factors. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that vertical pseudoneglect is primarily influenced by the allocation of allocentric attention, rather than action-intention. However, action-perceptual spatial incongruence increased this deviation. Perhaps the incongruent condition requires greater allocation of attention, but further exploration is needed. Additionally, these results suggest that visual attention follows the direction of motor action. Future studies of visual attention should consider the potential influence of this factor.
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- Benjamin A Chapin
- Division of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Department of Neurology, Synphaet Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.,Department of Neurology, Prasat Neurological Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, VAMC, North Florida/South, Georgia.,Center for OCD and Anxiety Related Disorders, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Center for Cognitive Aging and Memory, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Division of Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry, Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center (GRECC), Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Bonnet C, Poulin-Charronnat B, Ardonceau V, Sirandré C, Bard P, Michel C. Visuomanual Vertical Prism Adaptation: Aftereffects on Visuospatial and Auditory Frequency Representations. Front Psychol 2022; 13:850495. [PMID: 35558701 PMCID: PMC9087268 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.850495] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Sensorimotor aftereffects have been widely studied after lateral prism adaptation but not after vertical prism adaptation. It is thus well-known that lateral prism adaptation produces aftereffects on visuospatial representation and, recently, on auditory perception. This study aimed to explore the sensorimotor after-effects of vertical prism adaptation as well as its aftereffects on vertical visuospatial representation (Experiment 1) and on auditory frequency representation (Experiment 2). The experimental procedure was similar in both experiments: before and after prism adaptation to an upward or a downward optical deviation, healthy young participants performed an visual open-loop pointing task and a visual (Experiment 1) or an auditory (Experiment 2) perceptual bisection task. In the visual task, the participants had to indicate if they perceived the bisection as higher or lower than the true center of a line. In the auditory task, the participants had to indicate if they perceived the target auditory frequency closer to the low or the high limit of an auditory interval. For sensorimotor aftereffects, pointing errors were computed by means of a vertical touchscreen. For the perceptual bisection task, we measured the percentage of “down” (Experiment 1) or “low” responses (Experiment 2), and we computed the visual (Experiment 1) or the auditory (Experiment 2) subjective center for each participant. Statistical analyses were carried out separately for each optical deviation in each experiment. Sensorimotor aftereffects were observed in both experiments, in the opposite direction to the optical deviation (all ps < 0.01). No significant aftereffects occurred on visuospatial representation (all ps > 0.5), whereas the percentage of “low” responses and the auditory subjective center significantly increased after adaptation to a downward optical deviation (all ps < 0.05). Unlike lateral prism adaptation aftereffects that have been previously shown in both visuospatial horizontal representation and auditory frequency representation, aftereffects of vertical prism adaptation occurred in the auditory frequency representation but not in the vertical visuospatial representation. These results suggest that both vertical and lateral prism adaptations share a common substrate dedicated to the auditory modality (probably the temporal cortex), and that vertical adaptation does not act on the neural substrate of vertical visuospatial representation.
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- Clémence Bonnet
- INSERM UMR 1093-CAPS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UFR des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France
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- INSERM UMR 1093-CAPS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UFR des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France
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- INSERM UMR 1093-CAPS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UFR des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France
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- LEAD, CNRS UMR 5022, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France
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- INSERM UMR 1093-CAPS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UFR des Sciences du Sport, Dijon, France
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The Allocation of Vertical Attention in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease Receiving Dialysis. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11121549. [PMID: 34942851 PMCID: PMC8699659 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11121549] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
Abstract
Objectives: Alterations of spatial attention can have adverse effects, such a greater probability of accidents. Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) receiving dialysis have stronger left-sided spatial attentional bias, suggesting that this disorder or treatment alters the brain networks that mediate spatial attention. The hemispheric networks that mediate the allocation of horizontal attention may also influence the allocation of vertical attention. However, the allocation of vertical spatial attention has not been studied in ESRD patients. Methods: Twenty-three ESRD patients receiving dialysis and 23 healthy right-handed controls performed line bisections using 24 vertical lines (24 cm long and 2 mm thick) aligned with the intersection of their midsagittal and coronal planes. Results: Hemodialyzed ESRD patients had a significantly greater upward bias than healthy controls. The magnitude of this bias was correlated with the duration of the kidney disease. Conclusions: The reason why upward attentional bias is increased in hemodialyzed ESRD patients is not known. Further research is needed to better understand the brain mechanism that might account for this bias, as well as its treatment. However, hemodialyzed ESRD patients and their families-caregivers should be made aware of this disorder to avoid accidents such as tripping.
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Ciricugno A, Bartlett ML, Gwinn OS, Carragher DJ, Nicholls MER. The effect of cognitive load on horizontal and vertical spatial asymmetries. Laterality 2021; 26:706-724. [PMID: 33906579 DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2021.1920972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Healthy individuals typically show a leftward attentional bias in the allocation of spatial attention along the horizontal plane, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect, which relies on a right hemispheric dominance for visuospatial processing. Also, healthy individuals tend to overestimate the upper hemispace when orienting attention along the vertical plane, a phenomenon that may depend on asymmetric ventral and dorsal visual streams activation. Previous research has demonstrated that when attentional resources are reduced due to increased cognitive load, pseudoneglect is attenuated (or even reversed), due to decreased right-hemispheric activations. Critically, whether and how the reduction of attentional resources under load modulates vertical spatial asymmetries has not been addressed before. We asked participants to perform a line bisection task both with and without the addition of a concurrent auditory working memory task with lines oriented either horizontally or vertically. Results showed that increasing cognitive load reduced the typical leftward/upward bias with no difference between orientations. Our data suggest that the degree of cognitive load affects spatial attention not only in the horizontal but also in the vertical plane. Lastly, the similar effect of load on horizontal and vertical judgements suggests these biases may be related to only partially independent mechanisms.
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- Andrea Ciricugno
- IRCCS C. Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy.,College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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- College of Education, Psychology, and Social Work, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
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Heilman KM, Libon DJ, Sun CE, Price CC. Right up- left down. Brain Cogn 2021; 150:105727. [PMID: 33838595 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2020] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 03/26/2021] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND When performing the clock-drawing test healthy participants often draw the clock face using a counter clockwise movement. The reason for this circular directional bias is not known. These actions may be related to the development of motor or attentional programs that associate leftward with downward movements, and rightward with upward movements. METHODS To further examine this down-left, up-right programming hypothesis, we examined the direction of circular movements made during cursive writing by dividing the first curved movements into the following pairs, up versus down, and leftward versus rightward. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS With almost all the letters analyzed, when initially moving upward there was a simultaneous rightward movement and when initially moving downward a leftward movement. The results suggest that there appears to be a relationship between downward and leftward movements as well as between upward and right rightward movements. In addition, there is some evidence to suggest that the right-upward movements may be mediated by the left hemisphere and left-downward movements by the right hemisphere. Although our results suggest motor or spatial attentional programs may account for counter clockwise face drawing, activities such as learned writing direction may influence this spatial bias. Therefore, additional research is needed to better understand if these spatial biases are learned or intrinsic and the neuropsychological mechanisms that might account for these asymmetries.
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- Kenneth M Heilman
- Department of Neurology, The Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Psychology, New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, School of Osteopathic Medicine, New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging, Rowan University, Stratford, NJ, USA
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- Department of Neurology, The Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA; Department of Neurology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Morris M, Mańkowska A, Heilman KM. Upper Vertical Spatial Neglect With A Right Temporal Lobe Stroke. Cogn Behav Neurol 2020; 33:63-66. [PMID: 32132404 DOI: 10.1097/wnn.0000000000000221] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Individuals with a hemispheric infarction often reveal inattention to, or neglect of, contralesional lateral space (ie, hemispatial neglect). Individuals with a bilateral ventral temporal-occipital lesion have been shown to demonstrate upper vertical neglect, and those with a bilateral parietal-occipital lesion have been shown to demonstrate lower vertical neglect. However, to our knowledge, there have been no reports of individuals with vertical neglect from a unilateral hemispheric lesion. We report on a 72-year-old, right-handed male who developed transient left hemiparesis. On examination, he had left facial weakness and he bisected horizontal lines to the left of the midline (ie, ipsilesional neglect). In addition, on a line bisection test involving nine vertical line bisections, he demonstrated downward deviation in the majority of the trials; healthy individuals deviate upward. On brain imaging, our patient revealed a cerebral infarction, primarily affecting the right temporal lobe; the temporal lobes contain the ventral attentional network that allocates attention upward. There is also some evidence that, whereas the right hemisphere mediates attention upward, the left mediates attention downward. Therefore, injury to the right temporal lobe may account for our patient's upward neglect with downward deviation. However, further studies are needed to better understand the pathophysiology of vertical neglect.
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- Michael Morris
- Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida
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- Division of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Institute of Psychology, Department of the Social Sciences, University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland
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- Division of Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida.,Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida
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Rinaldi L, Ciricugno A, Merabet LB, Vecchi T, Cattaneo Z. The Effect of Blindness on Spatial Asymmetries. Brain Sci 2020; 10:brainsci10100662. [PMID: 32977398 PMCID: PMC7597958 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci10100662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2020] [Revised: 09/11/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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The human cerebral cortex is asymmetrically organized with hemispheric lateralization pervading nearly all neural systems of the brain. Whether the lack of normal visual development affects hemispheric specialization subserving the deployment of visuospatial attention asymmetries is controversial. In principle, indeed, the lack of early visual experience may affect the lateralization of spatial functions, and the blind may rely on a different sensory input compared to the sighted. In this review article, we thus present a current state-of-the-art synthesis of empirical evidence concerning the effects of visual deprivation on the lateralization of various spatial processes (i.e., including line bisection, mirror symmetry, and localization tasks). Overall, the evidence reviewed indicates that spatial processes are supported by a right hemispheric network in the blind, hence, analogously to the sighted. Such a right-hemisphere dominance, however, seems more accentuated in the blind as compared to the sighted as indexed by the greater leftward bias shown in different spatial tasks. This is possibly the result of the more pronounced involvement of the right parietal cortex during spatial tasks in blind individuals compared to the sighted, as well as of the additional recruitment of the right occipital cortex, which would reflect the cross-modal plastic phenomena that largely characterize the blind brain.
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- Luca Rinaldi
- Department of Brain and Behavioural Science, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy;
- Correspondence:
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- The Laboratory for Visual Neuroplasticity, Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA;
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- Department of Brain and Behavioural Science, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, Italy;
- IRCCS Mondino Foundation, 27100 Pavia, Italy; (A.C.); (Z.C.)
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- IRCCS Mondino Foundation, 27100 Pavia, Italy; (A.C.); (Z.C.)
- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy
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Spreij LA, Ten Brink AF, Visser-Meily JM, Nijboer TC. Increasing cognitive demand in assessments of visuo-spatial neglect: Testing the concepts of static and dynamic tests. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2020; 42:675-689. [DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2020.1798881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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- Lauriane A. Spreij
- Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation, Utrecht, Netherlands
- De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
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- Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Rehabilitation, Physical Therapy Science & Sports, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Center of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine, UMC Utrecht Brain Center, University Medical Center Utrecht, and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation, Utrecht, Netherlands
- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Feeling and Looking Down: Impact of Depressive Symptoms on the Allocation of Vertical Attention. Cogn Behav Neurol 2020; 33:137-144. [DOI: 10.1097/wnn.0000000000000232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Tariq U, Parker A, Saadatpour L, Doty L, Heilman KM. Posterior Cortical Atrophy with Right Lower Egocentric Quadrantic Neglect and Lower Vertical Allocentric Neglect. Arch Clin Neuropsychol 2020; 35:448-457. [PMID: 31942921 DOI: 10.1093/arclin/acz078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2019] [Revised: 11/01/2019] [Accepted: 11/26/2019] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Whereas rare cases of hemispatial visual neglect have been reported in patients with a neurodegenerative disease, quadrantic visuospatial neglect has not been described. We report a patient with probable posterior cortical atrophy who demonstrated lower right-sided quadrantic visuospatial neglect, together with allocentric vertical neglect. METHODS/RESULTS A 68-year-old man initially noted deficits in reading and writing. Subsequently, he developed other cognitive deficits. On vertical line bisections, he deviated upward, and on horizontal line bisections, he deviated to the left. These deviations together suggest that this man's neglect might be most severe in his right (head/body-centered) lower (below eye level) visual space. When attempting to perform vertical line bisections in all four egocentric quadrants, his upward deviations were largest in the right lower quadrant. On a cancelation test, he revealed bilateral lower (ventral) allocentric neglect but not egocentric neglect. This patient's magnetic resonance imaging revealed cortical atrophy, most prominent in the left parietal lobe. DISCUSSION Previous research in stroke patients has demonstrated that the parietal lobes are important in mediating attention to contralateral and inferior visual space. The presence of left parietal atrophy may have induced this right lower (ventral) egocentric inattention as well as bilateral ventral allocentric inattention. Although to our knowledge there have been no prior reports of a patient with right lower quadrantic and lower vertical allocentric visuospatial neglect, patients are rarely tested for these forms of neglect, and this patient illustrates the importance of evaluating patients for these and other forms of neglect.
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- Usama Tariq
- Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Neurology, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.,Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Ciricugno A, Ferrari C, Rusconi ML, Cattaneo Z. The left posterior cerebellum is involved in orienting attention along the mental number line: An online-TMS study. Neuropsychologia 2020; 143:107497. [PMID: 32413432 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107497] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Revised: 05/05/2020] [Accepted: 05/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Although converging evidence suggests that the posterior cerebellum is involved in visuospatial functions and in the orienting of attention, a clear topography of cerebellar regions causally involved in the control of spatial attention is still missing. In this study, we aimed to shed light on this issue by using online neuronavigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to temporarily interfere with posterior medial (Vermis lobule VII) and left lateral (Crus I/II) cerebellar activity during a task measuring visuospatial (landmark task, Experiment 1 and 2) and representational (number bisection task, Experiment 2) asymmetries in the orienting of attention. At baseline, participants showed attentional biases consistent with the literature, that is a leftward and upward bias with horizontal and vertical lines, respectively, and a leftward bias in number bisection. Critically, TMS over the left cerebellar hemisphere significantly counteracted pseudoneglect in the number bisection task, whilst not affecting attentional biases in the landmark task. In turn, TMS over the posterior vermis did not affect performance in either task. Taken together, our findings suggest that the left posterior cerebellar hemisphere (but not the posterior vermis) is a critical node of an extended brain network subtending the control of spatial attention, at least when attention needs to be allocated to an internal representational space and a certain degree of mental manipulation is required (as in the number bisection task).
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- Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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- Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
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- IRCCS Mondino Foundation, Pavia, Italy; Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
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OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of directed and sustained attention on the allocation of visuospatial attention. Healthy people often have left lateral and upward vertical spatial attentional biases. However, it is not known whether there will be an increase in bias toward the attended portion of the stimulus when volitional spatial attention is allocated to a portion of a stimulus, whether there are asymmetrical spatial alterations of these biases, and how sustained attention influences these biases. METHODS We assessed spatial bias in 36 healthy, right-handed participants using a variant of horizontal and vertical line bisections. Participants were asked to focus on one or the other end of vertical or horizontal lines or entire vertical or horizontal lines, and then to bisect the line either immediately or after a 20 second delay. RESULTS We found a significant main effect of attentional focus and an interaction between attentional focus and prolonged viewing with delayed bisection. Focusing on a certain portion of the line resulting in a significant deviation toward the attended portion and prolonged viewing of the line prior to bisection significantly enhanced the degree of deviation toward the attended portion. CONCLUSIONS The enhanced bias with directed and sustained attention may be useful modifications of the line bisection test, particularly in clinical populations. Thus, future studies should determine whether prolonged viewing with delayed bisection and spatially focused attention reveals attentional biases in patients with hemispheric lesions who perform normally on the traditional line bisection test. (JINS, 2019, 25, 65-71).
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OBJECTIVES Healthy individuals often have a leftward and upward attentional spatial bias; however, there is a reduction of this leftward bias with aging. The right hemisphere mediates leftward spatial attention and age-related reduction of right hemispheric activity may account for this reduced leftward bias. The right hemisphere also appears to be responsible for upward bias, and this upward bias might reduce with aging. Alternatively, whereas the dorsal visual stream allocates attention downward, the ventral stream allocates attention upward. Since with aging there is a greater atrophy of the dorsal than ventral stream, older participants may reveal a greater upward bias. The main purpose of this study was to learn if aging influences the vertical allocation of spatial attention. METHODS Twenty-six young (17 males; mean age 44.62±2.57 years) and 25 healthy elderly (13 males; mean age 72.04±.98 years), right-handed adults performed line bisections using 24 vertical lines (24 cm long and 2 mm thick) aligned with their midsagittal plane. RESULTS Older adults had a significantly greater upward bias than did younger adults. CONCLUSIONS Normal upward attentional bias increases with aging, possibly due to an age-related reduction of the dorsal attentional stream that is responsible for the allocation of downward attention. (JINS, 2018, 24, 1121-1124).
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Rodriguez JA, Lamb DG, Salazar L, Correa LN, Mosquera DM, Schwartz ZJ, Cohen RA, Falchook AD, Heilman KM. Background distraction during vertical solid and character line bisections. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2018; 40:887-894. [PMID: 29614901 DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2018.1444735] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Background-objectives: When vertical lines are positioned above or below the center of the page, line bisection deviates toward the center of the page, suggesting that the edges of the page distract the allocation of attention to the line. A letter-character line (LCL) bisection requires both global and focal attention, to identify the target letter closest to the line's center. If more focal and less global attention is allocated to a LCL, more global attentional resources may be available and inadvertently allocated to the page. Alternatively, if the allocation of focal attention to a LCL inhibits global attentional processing, there may be less distraction by the page. METHOD Twenty-four healthy adults (12 older) bisected vertical solid and character lines centered, or positioned closer to the top or bottom of the page. RESULTS There was no difference between bisection of solid and character lines centered on the page. Page-related deviations were greater with character lines than solid line bisections, and greater for lines positioned toward the top than the bottom of the page. With lines positioned toward the top, the older participants' attempted bisections were higher than those of the younger participants. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the allocation of focal attention increases global attentional distractibility and that global-background attentional distraction is greater when the vertical lines are placed in the upper part of the page. Older participants appeared to be less distracted when lines were placed toward the top of the page, but the reason for this age difference requires further research.
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- Julio A Rodriguez
- a Department of Neurology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,b Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences , Ponce , Puerto Rico.,c Center for Neuropsychological Studies, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- a Department of Neurology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,c Center for Neuropsychological Studies, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,d Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Gainesville , FL , USA.,e Cognitive Aging and Memory Center, Institute on Aging , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,f Department of Clinical and Health Psychology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- a Department of Neurology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,d Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- a Department of Neurology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,c Center for Neuropsychological Studies, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- a Department of Neurology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,c Center for Neuropsychological Studies, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,g Florida State University College of Medicine , Tallahassee , FL , USA
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- c Center for Neuropsychological Studies, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- e Cognitive Aging and Memory Center, Institute on Aging , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,f Department of Clinical and Health Psychology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- a Department of Neurology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,c Center for Neuropsychological Studies, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,d Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Gainesville , FL , USA
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- a Department of Neurology , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,c Center for Neuropsychological Studies, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.,d Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Gainesville , FL , USA.,e Cognitive Aging and Memory Center, Institute on Aging , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA
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Chieffi S, Messina G, Messina A, Villano I, Monda V, Ambra FI, Garofalo E, Romano F, Mollica MP, Monda M, Iavarone A. Memory for Spatial Locations in a Patient with Near Space Neglect and Optic Ataxia: Involvement of the Occipitotemporal Stream. Front Neurol 2017; 8:231. [PMID: 28620345 PMCID: PMC5449448 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00231] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2017] [Accepted: 05/12/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Previous studies suggested that the occipitoparietal stream orients attention toward the near/lower space and is involved in immediate reaching, whereas the occipitotemporal stream orients attention toward the far/upper space and is involved in delayed reaching. In the present study, we investigated the role of the occipitotemporal stream in attention orienting and delayed reaching in a patient (GP) with bilateral damage to the occipitoparietal areas and optic ataxia. GP and healthy controls took part in three experiments. In the experiment 1, the participants bisected lines oriented along radial, vertical, and horizontal axes. GP bisected radial lines farther, and vertical lines more above, than the controls, consistent with an attentional bias toward the far/upper space and near/lower space neglect. The experiment 2 consisted of two tasks: (1) an immediate reaching task, in which GP reached target locations under visual control and (2) a delayed visual reaching task, in which GP and controls were asked to reach remembered target locations visually presented. We measured constant and variable distance and direction errors. In immediate reaching task, GP accurately reached target locations. In delayed reaching task, GP overshot remembered target locations, whereas the controls undershot them. Furthermore, variable errors were greater in GP than in the controls. In the experiment 3, GP and controls performed a delayed proprioceptive reaching task. Constant reaching errors did not differ between GP and the controls. However, variable direction errors were greater in GP than in the controls. We suggest that the occipitoparietal damage, and the relatively intact occipitotemporal region, produced in GP an attentional orienting bias toward the far/upper space (experiment 1). In turns, the attentional bias selectively shifted toward the far space remembered visual (experiment 2), but not proprioceptive (experiment 3), target locations. As a whole, these findings further support the hypothesis of an involvement of the occipitotemporal stream in delayed reaching. Furthermore, the observation that in both delayed reaching tasks the variable errors were greater in GP than in the controls suggested that in optic ataxia is present not only a visuo- but also a proprioceptivo-motor integration deficit.
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- Sergio Chieffi
- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.,Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
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- Neurological and Stroke Unit, CTO Hospital, AORN "Ospedali dei Colli" Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Neurological and Stroke Unit, CTO Hospital, AORN "Ospedali dei Colli" Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Neurological and Stroke Unit, CTO Hospital, AORN "Ospedali dei Colli" Naples, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy
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- Neurological and Stroke Unit, CTO Hospital, AORN "Ospedali dei Colli" Naples, Naples, Italy
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Navarro G, Santurtun E, Phillips CJ. Effects of simulated sea motion on stepping behaviour in sheep. Appl Anim Behav Sci 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2016.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Hemispheric asymmetries in perceived depth revealed through a radial line bisection task. Exp Brain Res 2015; 234:807-13. [PMID: 26645309 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4504-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2015] [Accepted: 11/17/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Falchook AD, Mody MD, Srivastava AB, Williamson JB, Heilman KM. Vertical line quadrisection: "what" it represents and who gets the upper hand. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2013; 127:284-288. [PMID: 23260995 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2012] [Revised: 10/20/2012] [Accepted: 11/05/2012] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Normal adults demonstrate a slight upward bias (vertical pseudoneglect) when attempting vertical line bisection. The mechanism for this bias is unknown. Activation of the allocentric (object-centered) ventral visual system during attempted bisection may induce this bias. This object-centered ventral stream may also mediate focal attention. As compared to bisection, when normal participants perform a vertical line quadrisection task that requires more focal attention, they may have a greater upward bias. METHODS Sixteen participants bisected and quadrisected vertical lines. RESULTS The mean upward bias (deviation error) for the quadrisection tasks was significantly higher than the mean error for the line bisections. CONCLUSIONS These results are consistent with the hypothesis that activation of the ventral stream by a task that requires focal allocentric attention can induce an upward vertical bias that is greater than the upward bias observed with allocentric line bisection, a task that requires more global attention.
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- Adam D Falchook
- Department of Neurology and Center for Neuropsychological Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States; Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, United States.
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