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Barbara Treccani¹, Roberto Cubelli, Roberta Sellaro

¹Dipartimento di Scienze della Cognizione e della Formazione, Università degli Studi di Trento, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto, Trento, Italy. barbara.treccani@unitn.it

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Cognitive Science
Psychology

Background:

Current theories link spatial coding to conscious experience, suggesting deficits in spatial processing cause nonconscious stimulus processing.
Unilateral neglect theories posit that impaired spatial coding of neglected stimuli prevents conscious awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between spatial coding and conscious experience.
To determine if spatial information can be processed independently of conscious awareness.

Main Methods:

Case study of a patient with left neglect.
Assessment of the patient's ability to process color and position of contralesional stimuli.

Main Results:

The patient demonstrated processing of color and position for neglected stimuli, despite lack of awareness.
Processing of color and position for neglected stimuli occurred separately, unlike integrated processing for consciously perceived stimuli.

Conclusions:

Spatial coding and consciousness can dissociate.
Object features like position can be processed nonconsciously.
Conscious perception requires the binding of individual features into a unified percept.