Representational neglect for words as revealed by bisection tasks.

  • Arduino LS
  • Marinelli CV
  • Pasotti F
  • Ferrè ER
  • BOTTINI, GABRIELLA
ORKG logo View in ORKG
Publication date
January 2012

Abstract

In the present study, we showed that a representational disorder for words can dissociate from both representational neglect for objects and neglect dyslexia. This study involved 14 brain-damaged patients with left unilateral spatial neglect and a group of normal subjects. Patients were divided into four groups based on presence of left neglect dyslexia and representational neglect for non-verbal material, as evaluated by the Clock Drawing test. The patients were presented with bisection tasks for words and lines. The word bisection tasks (with words of five and seven letters) comprised the following: (1) representational bisection: the experimenter pronounced a word and then asked the patient to name the letter in the middle position; (2) ...

Extracted data

We use cookies to provide a better user experience.