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Hemineglect: take a look at the back space
Author(s) -
ViaudDelmon Isabelle,
Brugger Peter,
Landis Theodor
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.21176
Subject(s) - space (punctuation) , psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , computer science , operating system
Visual hemineglect, the failure to explore the half of space, real or imagined, contralateral to a cerebral lesion with respect to body or head, can be seen as an illustration of the brain's Euclidean representation of the left/right axis. Here we present two patients with left‐sided neglect, in whom only the left hemispace in front of an imagined and/or real body position was inaccessible, but the space behind them remained fully represented. These observations suggest that of the three Euclidean dimensions (up/down, left/right, and front/back), at least the latter two are modularly and separately represented in the human brain. Ann Neurol 2007