Extinction is not a natural consequence of unilateral spatial neglect: Evidence from contrast detection experiments

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 420, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-244

  Pavlovskaya, Marina ^a,b   Soroker, Nachum ^a,b   Bonneh, Yoram ^c  

^a LOEWENSTEIN REHABILITATION HOSPITAL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attention; Contrast detection; Salience imbalance; Unilateral neglect; Visual extinction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STROKE; UNILATERAL SPATIAL NEGLECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249813101     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.05.011     Document Type: Article

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