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  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy.

Brain : a Journal of Neurology
|October 1, 1990
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Patients with right parietal lesions exhibit altered spatial attention, focusing more on right-sided stimuli. This visual extinction leads to decreased attention on the left when right-sided attention increases.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neurology

Background:

  • Parietal lesions can significantly impact spatial awareness and attentional processing.
  • Visual extinction is a condition where patients fail to perceive stimuli in one visual field when stimuli are presented simultaneously in both.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate attentional performance in patients with parietal lesions under varying spatial attention demands.
  • To determine the focus of attention in patients with visual extinction.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted involving patients with right parietal lesions and a control group.
  • Participants performed tasks requiring attention to single or multiple spatial locations under different conditions.

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Main Results:

  • Patients with right parietal lesions showed improved speed and accuracy from right to left in one experiment.
  • In another experiment, these patients responded faster to right-sided stimuli than left-sided stimuli, unlike controls.
  • Response speed and accuracy for right-sided stimuli were consistent whether attended to individually or among multiple stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • Patients with visual extinction demonstrate a focus of attention on the rightmost stimulus.
  • Increased attention to the right is associated with a corresponding decrease in attention to the left side.