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André Dufour1, Pascale Touzalin, Victor Candas

  • 1Centre d'Etudes de Physiologie Appliquée, UPS 858 CNRS, 21 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg, France. andre.dufour@c-strasbourg.fr

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|December 6, 2006
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Neurologically normal individuals exhibit pseudoneglect, a leftward spatial bias. This study found that reduced alertness diminishes this bias, but does not reverse it, even without eye movements.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Neurologically normal individuals show a leftward spatial bias (pseudoneglect) in line-bisection tasks, often attributed to heightened left hemispace attention.
  • Previous research suggested declining alertness shifts attention rightward, but eye movements were not controlled, leaving scanning strategy changes as a potential confound.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if diminished alertness, induced by a prolonged task without eye movements, affects the pseudoneglect phenomenon.
  • To determine if reduced alertness decreases or reverses the typical leftward spatial bias.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a forced-choice task judging the center of a horizontal line.
  • Alertness was diminished using a 60-minute Landmark task, while controlling for eye movements.

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  • The spatial bias was assessed before and after the alertness-diminishing task.

    • Main Results:

    • A significant decrease in the leftward spatial bias was observed over the course of the session.
    • Unlike previous findings, no reversal of bias from left to right hemispace was detected.
    • The results indicate that reduced alertness modulates spatial attention without confounding eye movement strategies.

    Conclusions:

    • Diminished alertness leads to a reduction in pseudoneglect.
    • The findings support the hemisphere-activation model in explaining spatial attention biases.
    • Controlling for eye movements is crucial when investigating alertness effects on spatial bias.