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Daniela Balslev¹, Bartholomäus Odoj²

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Spatial neglect distorts gaze direction input to the attentional priority map. This finding suggests that interventions targeting gaze signals may help alleviate spatial neglect symptoms.

Keywords:

Attention Coordinate transformation Spatial neglect Stroke

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Background:

Spatial neglect is a disorder characterized by an inability to attend to stimuli on one side of space.
Theoretical models suggest an attentional priority map guides spatial attention.
The contribution of gaze signals to this map in spatial neglect remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether lesions causing spatial neglect distort gaze direction input to the attentional priority map.
To determine if gaze information is accurately integrated into spatial representations in neglect.

Main Methods:

A cross-modal attention task was used with patients with left spatial neglect and control groups.
Visual targets were cued by a hidden finger, assessing attention locus via reaction time.
A reaching task ruled out general visual localization errors.

Main Results:

Healthy controls and patients without neglect allocated attention precisely at the cued location.
Patients with spatial neglect showed a rightward attentional shift (0.5⁰-2⁰) relative to the cue.
This distortion was specific to the gaze direction input, not general visual localization.

Conclusions:

Spatial neglect involves a distorted gaze direction input to the attentional priority map.
Attention and gaze are coupled, and this coupling is disrupted in spatial neglect.
Targeting gaze signals may offer a novel therapeutic approach for spatial neglect.