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Representational neglect and navigation in virtual space.

Laura Piccardi¹

¹Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute, Universita degli Studi dell'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy. laura.piccardi@cc.univaq.it

Cognitive Neuropsychology

|August 7, 2009

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Patients with representational neglect struggle with spatial orientation and cannot form mental maps of new environments. This navigational deficit stems from impaired mental representation abilities, unlike other brain-damaged groups.

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Background:

Mental representational disorders impact human orientation and navigation.
Representational neglect specifically hinders reorientation in novel environments due to difficulties manipulating mental representations.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate navigational abilities in patients with representational neglect.
To compare their performance against brain-damaged patients without neglect and healthy controls in a virtual maze.
To elucidate the role of mental representation in navigation, independent of vestibular and proprioceptive cues.

Main Methods:

A virtual maze navigation task was employed.
Participants included representational neglect patients, other brain-damaged patients (left/right lesions), and healthy controls.
Navigation was tested with and without local landmarks to isolate representational deficits.

Main Results:

Healthy participants and brain-damaged patients without neglect navigated without deficits.
Both perceptual and representational neglect patients showed significant navigational impairments.
Only representational neglect patients failed to build or retrieve mental representations of the virtual environment.

Conclusions:

Navigational deficits in representational neglect are linked to the inability to form or access mental representations of an environment.
This study highlights the critical role of mental representation in spatial orientation and navigation.
Virtual environments offer a controlled method to study navigation disorders.