Unilateral neglect: Personal and extra-personal

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Abstract

Ninety-seven right brain-damaged patients were given two tasks aimed at assessing unilateral neglect in personal and in extra-personal space. The frequency of the two aspects of neglect, as well as their patterns of association with each other and with more elementary neurological disorders are reported and discussed. The results suggest a non-unitary frame of spatial reference for unilateral neglect, which may tentatively be interpreted in terms of a personal vs extra-personal dichotomy.

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    Patients were asked to complete the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE; Folstein et al., 1975). Personal neglect was assessed by means of the Comb and Razor/Make-up test (Beschin and Robertson, 1997; McIntoch et al., 2000) or the One Item test (Bisiach et al., 1986b). Extrapersonal neglect was assessed by means of a battery of tests, which included Line Cancellation (Albert, 1973), Line bisection (Wilson et al., 1987) and Clock test (Mondini et al., 2011).

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Present address: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Milano, Italy.

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