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Moretta P, Cavallo ND, Fonzo E, Maiorino A, Ferrante C, Ambrosino P, Femiano C, Santangelo G, Marcuccio L. Visual vertical neglect in acquired brain injury: a systematic review. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1360057. [PMID: 38529094 PMCID: PMC10962212 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1360057] [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: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024] Open
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Vertical neglect represents a visuospatial deficit occurring as a possible consequence of acquired brain injury (ABI). Differently from unilateral spatial neglect on horizontal space, vertical neglect is poorly studied in the literature and rarely assessed in clinical practice. In the available studies, the terms "radial," "vertical," and "altitudinal" neglect are often used interchangeably, although they do not describe the same spatial dimension. "Altitudinal" and "vertical" refer to the sagittal plane, whereas "radial" refers to the transverse plane. The term "vertical" is sometimes used interchangeably with respect to both axes. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the main characteristics of vertical neglect after ABI, the diagnostic tools used, and the treatment options. We also proposed a clarification of the manifestations and characteristics of vertical and radial neglect. The 23 articles reviewed, showed that the vertical neglect occurred more frequently on the lower space than on the upper space, that its presence was associated with horizontal neglect, and that it could also occur with compromise of the radial space, with the near radial being more common. The most frequent etiology associated with vertical neglect is vascular, particularly ischaemic. The lesions side are very heterogeneous and include both cortical and subcortical areas and all lobes, although the temporal lobe is most affected. With regard to the assessment tools, paper and pencil tasks are the most commonly used diagnostic tools to identify vertical neglect, although in recent years the use of computer-based tasks increased. Taken together, our results suggest that vertical neglect may be underestimated in patients with right hemisphere lesions and should always be assessed, especially in cases where the patient shows signs of horizontal neglect. The clinical assessment of vertical neglect is very important since it can lead to important functional limitations in everyday life, such as poor wheelchair handling, stumbling over unnoticed obstacles located below (or above), walking down stairs, taking off shoes.
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- Pasquale Moretta
- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Neuromotor Rehabilitation Unit of Telese Terme Institute, Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Università della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Università della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Caserta, Italy
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- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Neuromotor Rehabilitation Unit of Telese Terme Institute, Benevento, Italy
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- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Neuromotor Rehabilitation Unit of Telese Terme Institute, Benevento, Italy
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- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Scientific Directorate of Telese Terme Institute, Benevento, Italy
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- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Neuromotor Rehabilitation Unit of Telese Terme Institute, Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Università della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’, Caserta, Italy
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- Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Neuromotor Rehabilitation Unit of Telese Terme Institute, Benevento, Italy
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Reaction time analysis in patients with mild left unilateral spatial neglect employing the modified Posner task: vertical and horizontal dimensions. Exp Brain Res 2022; 240:2143-2153. [PMID: 35768734 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-022-06400-z] [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: 12/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Unilateral spatial neglect (USN) is a common neurological syndrome that develops after a right hemisphere lesion. By examining the performance of the modified Posner task added to the vertical dimensions of the left and right visual fields, we studied whether the lower left area had different neglect symptoms than the other locations. 41 patients with right hemisphere damage were classified into those with mild USN (USN+ ; n = 20) and without USN (USN- ; n = 21). Twenty older participants made up the healthy control (HC; n = 20) group. All participants recorded deficits in the paper-and-pencil tests established for neglect and reaction times in the modified Posner task. In the paper-and-pencil tests, there was no difference in deficit between the upper and lower left visual fields in any of the groups. According to the modified Posner task, the USN+ group exhibited delays in reaction time in the lower left visual field rather than the upper left visual field. Importantly, reaction times were delayed, and USN symptoms persisted, particularly for the lower left quadrant. Our findings imply that the modified Posner task can accurately uncover neglect symptoms in the case of mild USN.
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Williams LJ, Kernot J, Hillier SL, Loetscher T. Spatial Neglect Subtypes, Definitions and Assessment Tools: A Scoping Review. Front Neurol 2021; 12:742365. [PMID: 34899565 PMCID: PMC8653914 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2021.742365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Objective: The objective of this scoping review was to capture the reported definitions for the subtypes of neglect post stroke and map the range of assessment tools employed for each neglect subtype. Methods: EMBASE, Emcare, Medline, and psychINFO were searched from database inception. Searching included all allied terms and mesh headings for stroke, spatial neglect, measurement, screening tools, psychometric properties. Two reviewers independently screened studies for inclusion. Primary studies with documented protocols of a spatial neglect tool for adults post stroke, with some aspect of validity or reliability were included. Two reviewers independently reviewed the documented protocols of each tool to determine the underlying subtypes and disagreements were resolved through discussion. Results: There were 371 articles included with 292 tools used for the screening or diagnosis of neglect. The majority of studies (67%) included a tool that did not specify the neglect subtype being assessed, therefore an analysis of the underlying subtypes for each tool is presented. Conclusions: There is no consistency with the terms used to refer to the syndrome of spatial neglect with over 200 different terms used within the included studies to refer to the syndrome as a whole or one of its subtypes. It is essential to unify the terminology and definition for each neglect subtype. There are hundreds of neglect tools available, however many are not able to differentiate presenting subtypes. It is important for clinicians and researchers to critically evaluate the neglect tools being used for the screening and diagnosis of neglect.
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- Lindy J Williams
- Cognitive Aging and Impairment Neurosciences Lab, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.,Innovation IMPlementation and Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.,Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Innovation IMPlementation and Clinical Translation (IIMPACT) in Health, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.,Allied Health and Human Performance, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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- Cognitive Aging and Impairment Neurosciences Lab, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia.,Justice and Society, University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia
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Ten Brink AF, Elshout J, Nijboer TCW, Van der Stigchel S. How does the number of targets affect visual search performance in visuospatial neglect? J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2020; 42:1010-1027. [PMID: 33148120 DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2020.1840520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Impairments in visual search are a common symptom in visuospatial neglect (VSN). The severity of the lateralized attention bias in visual search tasks can vary depending on the number of distractors: the more distractors, the more targets are missed. However, little is known about how the number of targets affect search performance in VSN. The aim of the current study was to examine the effect of the number of targets on hit rate in VSN. METHODS We included 23 stroke patients with right-brain damage and VSN, 55 with right-brain damage without VSN, and 49 with left-brain damage without VSN, all admitted for inpatient rehabilitation. In a visual search task, patients had to find and tap targets, presented along with non-targets. The location and number of targets varied from trial to trial, allowing the evaluation of the effects of number and location of targets on hit rate. RESULTS VSN patients detected a lower percentage of targets when more targets were present. For patients with right-brain damage without VSN, adding targets only reduced the hit rate of the most contralesional target. No effect of number of targets on hit rate was seen in patients with left-brain damage. Additionally, VSN patients found less contralesional targets than ipsilesional targets, made more delayed revisits, and had an initial rightward bias when compared to the other groups. There were no differences in search time, search consistency, or immediate revisits between groups. There was a moderate positive relation between the hit rate asymmetry score in our search task and conventional paper-and-pencil VSN tasks, and neglect behavior in daily life. CONCLUSIONS In VSN patients, a higher number of targets reduces the hit rate. The reduced hit rate in visual search evoked by additional targets should be taken into account when assessing visual search in VSN.
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- Antonia F Ten Brink
- Department of Psychology, University of Bath , Bath, UK.,Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University , Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University , Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University , Utrecht, The Netherlands.,Centre of Excellence for Rehabilitation Medicine Utrecht, UMC Utrecht Brain Centre, University Medical Centre Utrecht, and De Hoogstraat Rehabilitation , Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Experimental Psychology, Helmholtz Institute, Utrecht University , Utrecht, The Netherlands
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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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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: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [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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Effects of attentional and cognitive variables on unilateral spatial neglect. Neuropsychologia 2016; 92:158-166. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2015] [Revised: 04/27/2016] [Accepted: 05/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Lagogianni C, Thomas S, Lincoln N. Examining the relationship between fatigue and cognition after stroke: A systematic review. Neuropsychol Rehabil 2016; 28:57-116. [PMID: 26787096 DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2015.1127820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Many stroke survivors experience fatigue, which is associated with a variety of factors including cognitive impairment. A few studies have examined the relationship between fatigue and cognition and have obtained conflicting results. The aim of the current study was to review the literature on the relationship between fatigue and cognition post-stroke. The following databases were searched: EMBASE (1980-February, 2014), PsycInfo (1806-February, 2014), CINAHL (1937-February, 2014), MEDLINE (1946-February, 2014), Ethos (1600-February, 2014) and DART (1999-February, 2014). Reference lists of relevant papers were screened and the citation indices of the included papers were searched using Web of Science. Studies were considered if they were on adult stroke patients and assessed the following: fatigue with quantitative measurements (≥ 3 response categories), cognition using objective measurements, and the relationship between fatigue and cognition. Overall, 413 papers were identified, of which 11 were included. Four studies found significant correlations between fatigue and memory, attention, speed of information processing and reading speed (r = -.36 to .46) whereas seven studies did not. Most studies had limitations; quality scores ranged from 9 to 14 on the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme Checklists. There was insufficient evidence to support or refute a relationship between fatigue and cognition post-stroke. More robust studies are needed.
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- Christodouli Lagogianni
- a Division of Rehabilitation & Ageing, Medical School , University of Nottingham , Nottingham , UK.,b Queens Medical Centre , Nottingham , UK
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- a Division of Rehabilitation & Ageing, Medical School , University of Nottingham , Nottingham , UK.,b Queens Medical Centre , Nottingham , UK
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- a Division of Rehabilitation & Ageing, Medical School , University of Nottingham , Nottingham , UK.,b Queens Medical Centre , Nottingham , UK
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Bourgeois A, Chica AB, Migliaccio R, Bayle DJ, Duret C, Pradat-Diehl P, Lunven M, Pouget P, Bartolomeo P. Inappropriate rightward saccades after right hemisphere damage: Oculomotor analysis and anatomical correlates. Neuropsychologia 2015; 73:1-11. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.04.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2014] [Revised: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 04/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Suavansri K, Falchook AD, Williamson JB, Heilman KM. Right up there: Hemispatial and hand asymmetries of altitudinal pseudoneglect. Brain Cogn 2012; 79:216-20. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2012.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2011] [Revised: 03/03/2012] [Accepted: 03/11/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Müri RM, Cazzoli D, Nyffeler T, Pflugshaupt T. Visual exploration pattern in hemineglect. PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2008; 73:147-57. [DOI: 10.1007/s00426-008-0204-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2008] [Accepted: 09/18/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Sarri M, Greenwood R, Kalra L, Driver J. Task-related modulation of visual neglect in cancellation tasks. Neuropsychologia 2008; 47:91-103. [PMID: 18790703 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2008] [Revised: 07/22/2008] [Accepted: 08/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Unilateral neglect involves deficits of spatial exploration and awareness that do not always affect a fixed portion of extrapersonal space, but may vary with current stimulation and possibly with task demands. Here, we assessed any 'top-down', task-related influences on visual neglect, with novel experimental variants of the cancellation test. Many different versions of the cancellation test are used clinically, and can differ in the extent of neglect revealed, though the exact factors determining this are not fully understood. Few cancellation studies have isolated the influence of top-down factors, as typically the stimuli are changed also when comparing different tests. Within each of three cancellation studies here, we manipulated task factors, while keeping visual displays identical across conditions to equate purely bottom-up factors. Our results show that top-down task demands can significantly modulate neglect as revealed by cancellation on the same displays. Varying the target/non-target discrimination required for identical displays has a significant impact. Varying the judgement required can also have an impact on neglect even when all items are targets, so that non-targets no longer need filtering out. Requiring local versus global aspects of shape to be judged for the same displays also has a substantial impact, but the nature of discrimination required by the task still matters even when local/global level is held constant (e.g. for different colour discriminations on the same stimuli). Finally, an exploratory analysis of lesions among our neglect patients suggested that top-down task-related influences on neglect, as revealed by the new cancellation experiments here, might potentially depend on right superior temporal gyrus surviving the lesion.
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- Margarita Sarri
- UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK.
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Vasquez B, Danckert J. Direction specific costs to spatial working memory from saccadic and spatial remapping. Neuropsychologia 2008; 46:2344-54. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2007] [Revised: 03/10/2008] [Accepted: 03/13/2008] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Cappelletti M, Freeman ED, Cipolotti L. The middle house or the middle floor: bisecting horizontal and vertical mental number lines in neglect. Neuropsychologia 2007; 45:2989-3000. [PMID: 17640687 PMCID: PMC2567815 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.05.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2007] [Revised: 04/22/2007] [Accepted: 05/29/2007] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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This study explores the processing of mental number lines and physical lines in five patients with left unilateral neglect. Three tasks were used: mental number bisection ('report the middle number between two numbers'), physical line bisection ('mark the middle of a line'), and a landmark task ('is the mark on the line to the left/right or higher/lower than the middle of the line?'). We manipulated the number line orientation purely by task instruction: neglect patients were told that the number-pairs represented either houses on a street (horizontal condition) or floors in a building (vertical condition). We also manipulated physical line orientation for comparison. All five neglect patients showed a rightward bias for horizontally oriented physical and number lines (e.g. saying 'five' is the middle house number between 'two' and 'six'). Only three of these patients also showed an upward bias for vertically oriented number lines. The remaining two patients did not show any bias in processing vertical lines. Our results suggest that: (1) horizontal and vertical neglect can associate or dissociate among different patients; (2) bisecting number lines operates on internal horizontal and vertical representations possibly analogous to horizontal and vertical physical lines; (3) at least partially independent mechanisms may be involved in processing horizontal and vertical number lines.
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- Marinella Cappelletti
- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK
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- Department of Neuropsychology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
- Department of Psychology, University of Palermo, via Delle Scienze 15, Palermo, Italy
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Mark VW, Woods AJ, Ball KK, Roth DL, Mennemeier M. Disorganized search on cancellation is not a consequence of neglect. Neurology 2004; 63:78-84. [PMID: 15249614 PMCID: PMC4441794 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000131947.08670.d4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Some studies have suggested that in stroke patients, spatial inattention on the cancellation test is closely related to disorganized visual search. However, methods to assess spatial aspects of search organization on cancellation tests have not been well developed. In this study the authors design and evaluate new methods to quantify strategies of spatial exploration on the cancellation test in stroke patients who showed a broad range of spatial attentional abilities, and test whether disorganization and inattention are related. METHODS Twenty stroke patients were videotaped while they performed a cancellation test. Several variables that reflect spatial aspects of search organization were measured through subsequent video playback. Two patients with severe neglect were excluded from further analysis to avoid constraining the spatial expression of search organization. Spearman correlations were used to assess whether severity of spatial inattention correlated with the individual search organization measures. RESULTS Of the 18 remaining patients, 10 had mild-moderate spatial neglect (pathologic inattention), while the other 8 omitted at most one target (normal performance). There were no significant correlations between the number of targets omitted and any of the search organization measures. CONCLUSIONS Spatial inattention on cancellation due to neglect following stroke is not closely related to the organization of visual search. Instead, search disorganization during cancellation may reflect disturbance of an unspecified executive control mechanism.
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- V W Mark
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 619 19 Street South, SRC 190, Birmingham, AL 35249-7330, USA.
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Butler BC, Eskes GA, Vandorpe RA. Gradients of detection in neglect: comparison of peripersonal and extrapersonal space. Neuropsychologia 2004; 42:346-58. [PMID: 14670573 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Previous studies of target-cancellation performance in visuospatial neglect patients have reported lateral (left-right) and radial (near-far) gradients of attentional ability. The purpose of the present study was to replicate the reported attentional gradients in peripersonal space (within arms reach) and to examine whether lateral gradients of detection also appear in extrapersonal space (beyond arms reach), using equivalent tasks with no manual requirement. The relationship between radial gradients in peripersonal space and neglect severity (degree of lateral gradient) in extrapersonal space was also of interest. Right-hemisphere stroke subjects, with and without neglect, and healthy control subjects named visual targets on scanning sheets placed in peripersonal and extrapersonal space. The neglect group showed lateral gradients of increasing target detection from left to right in both peripersonal and extrapersonal space, which were not evident in the performance of either of the control groups. Double dissociations of neglect severity in peripersonal and extrapersonal space were also found in analyses of individual performance. Lesion analyses showed that peripersonal neglect was related to dorsal stream damage and extrapersonal neglect was related to ventral stream damage. Group analyses showed no significant radial gradients in peripersonal space in the three groups. In addition, while analyses of some individuals found significant near-far and far-near radial gradients, there was no correlation between radial gradients in peripersonal space and neglect severity in extrapersonal space. These results are discussed in terms of theorised hemispheric mechanisms of spatial attention and the relationship of neglect in the two co-ordinate spaces to the extent and location of damaged neurons in the right hemisphere.
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- Beverly C Butler
- Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 2E2
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Bartolomeo P, Urbanski M, Chokron S, Chainay H, Moroni C, Siéroff E, Belin C, Halligan P. Neglected attention in apparent spatial compression. Neuropsychologia 2004; 42:49-61. [PMID: 14615075 DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3932(03)00146-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Halligan and Marshall [Cortex 27 (1991) 623] devised a new test to evaluate the hypothesis that in visual neglect, left space is systematically compressed rightwards. In the critical condition of the original study, rows of horizontally arranged numbers with a target arrow pointing to one of them from the opposite margin of the display were presented. When asked to verbally identify the number indicated by the arrow, a right brain-damaged patient with left neglect and hemianopia often indicated a number to the right of the target. The more the target was located on the left, the greater the response shift rightward, as if rightward compression were linearly proportional to the co-ordinates of Euclidian space. However, a possible alternative account could be that the patient's attention was attracted by the numbers located to the right of the target digit, thus biasing her responses toward numbers on the right. To explore this hypothesis, we asked normal participants and patients with right hemisphere lesions, with and without neglect or hemianopia, to mark on the margin of a sheet the approximate location indicated by an arrow situated on the opposite margin. In three different conditions, the arrow indicated either one of several numbers or lines in a row, or a blank location on the sheet margin. Only patients with left neglect, and especially those with associated hemianopia, deviated rightward, and then crucially only on those conditions where visible targets were present, consistent with the attentional bias account.
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- Paolo Bartolomeo
- French Institute of Biomedical Research, INSERM EMI 007, Centre Paul Broca, 2ter rue d'Alésia, F-75014 Paris, France.
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Pouget A, Sejnowski TJ. Simulating a lesion in a basis function model of spatial representations: comparison with hemineglect. Psychol Rev 2001; 108:653-73. [PMID: 11488381 DOI: 10.1037/0033-295x.108.3.653] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The basis function theory of spatial representations explains how neurons in the parietal cortex can perform nonlinear transformations from sensory to motor coordinates. The authors present computer simulations showing that unilateral parietal lesions leading to a neuronal gradient in basis function maps can account for the behavior of patients with hemineglect, including (a) neglect in line cancellation and line bisection experiments; (b) neglect in multiple frames of reference simultaneously; (c) relative neglect, a form of what is sometime called object-centered neglect; and (d) neglect without optic ataxia. Contralateral neglect arises in the model because the lesion produces an imbalance in the salience of stimuli that is modulated by the orientation of the body in space. These results strongly support the basis function theory for spatial representations in humans and provide a computational model of hemineglect at the single-cell level.
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- A Pouget
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
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McCourt ME, Garlinghouse M. Asymmetries of visuospatial attention are modulated by viewing distance and visual field elevation: pseudoneglect in peripersonal and extrapersonal space. Cortex 2000; 36:715-31. [PMID: 11195917 DOI: 10.1016/s0010-9452(08)70548-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Many factors influence the degree of leftward error (pseudoneglect) that typifies the line bisection performance of normal subjects. We find that viewing distance also exerts a modulating influence on spatial attention in normal subjects, as it appears to do in neglect syndrome. Using forced-choice tachistoscopic line bisection, 38 right-handed subjects (15 male, 23 female) bisected horizontal lines (13.7 degrees w x 0.24 degrees h) presented in the midsagittal plane as a function of line elevation (- 3.6 degrees, 0 degrees, and 3.6 degrees relative to horizontal midline) and viewing distance (45 and 90 cm). We find a significant main effect of viewing distance, F (1, 37) = 10.04, p = .003, where pseudoneglect is larger in peripersonal (45 cm) than in extrapersonal (90 cm) space. We replicate an effect of line elevation, F (2, 74) = 4.40, p = .016, where pseudoneglect is greatest in the superior visual field (McCourt and Jewell, 1999). The interaction was not significant, p > .05. Thus, we find evidence for independent spatiotopic (viewing distance) and retinotopic (line elevation) effects on line bisection performance in normal observers, suggesting that the allocation of visuospatial attention is modulated within multiple frameworks.
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- M E McCourt
- Department of Psychology, North Dakota State University, Fargo 58105-5075, USA.
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether stroke patients with diagonal neglect on cancellation may show diagonal neglect on line bisection, and hence to indicate whether diagonal neglect may be related solely to the type of test used or whether instead it may reflect a fundamental spatial disorder. METHODS Nine patients with subacute right hemispheric stroke who neglected targets primarily in the near left direction on line cancellation bisected diagonal lines of two opposing orientations: near left to far right and far left to near right. The errors were assessed to determine whether line orientation significantly affected bisection error. RESULTS Eight patients had significant bisection errors. One of these showed no effect of line orientation on error, consistent with lateral neglect. The remaining seven patients had a line orientation effect, indicating a net diagonal spatial bias. For the group, cancellation errors were significantly correlated with the line orientation effect on bisection errors. CONCLUSIONS A significant diagonal bias on two tests of spatial attention may appear in stroke patients, although the directions of the biases may differ within individual patients. None the less, diagonal neglect may be a fundamental spatial attentional disturbance of right hemispheric stroke. Greater severity of stroke deficit as indicated by cancellation error score may be associated with a greater degree of diagonal neglect on line bisection.
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- V W Mark
- Department of Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Fargo, USA
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