Non-lateralised deficits in anti-saccade performance in patients with hemispatial neglect

Stephen H. Butler; Stephanie Rossit; Iain D.  Gilchrist; Casimir J.H.  Ludwig; Bettina  Olk; Keith Muir; Ian  Reeves; Monika Harvey

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.022

Non-lateralised deficits in anti-saccade performance in patients with hemispatial neglect

Stephen H. Butler, Stephanie Rossit, Iain D. Gilchrist, Casimir J.H. Ludwig, Bettina Olk, Keith Muir, Ian Reeves, Monika Harvey

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Abstract

We tested patients suffering from hemispatial neglect on the anti-saccade paradigm to assess voluntary control of saccades. In this task participants are required to saccade away from an abrupt onset target. As has been previously reported, in the pro-saccade condition neglect patients showed increased latencies towards targets presented on the left and their accuracy was reduced as a result of greater undershoot. To our surprise though, in the anti-saccade condition, we found strong bilateral effects: the neglect patients produced large numbers of erroneous pro-saccades to both left and right stimuli.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2488-2495
Number of pages	8
Journal	Neuropsychologia
Volume	47
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.022
Publication status	Published - Oct 2009

Keywords

saccades
brain lesions
hemispatial neglect

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Non-lateralised deficits in anti-saccade performance in patients with hemispatial neglect

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