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 |
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Pages (from-to) | 2488-2495 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Neuropsychologia |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 12 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2009 |
Keywords
- saccades
- brain lesions
- hemispatial neglect