1. Dissociating perceptual and motor effects of prism adaptation in neglect
- Author
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Christopher L. Striemer and James Danckert
- Subjects
Aged, 80 and over ,Male ,Landmark ,General Neuroscience ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Bisection ,Parietal lobe ,Cognition ,Adaptation (eye) ,Adaptation, Physiological ,Neglect ,Perceptual Disorders ,Eyeglasses ,Perception ,Visual Perception ,Humans ,Female ,Psychology ,Neuroscience ,Prism adaptation ,Psychomotor Performance ,Aged ,Cognitive psychology ,media_common - Abstract
Prism adaptation reduces some symptoms of neglect; however the mechanisms underlying such changes are poorly understood. We suggest that prisms influence neglect by acting on dorsal stream circuits subserving visuomotor control, with little influence on perceptual aspects of neglect. We examined prism adaptation in three neglect patients and a group of healthy controls on line bisection and landmark tasks. Neglect patients showed a dramatic reduction in the rightward bias for line bisection, but absolutely no change in their leftward bias on the landmark task, which is a perceptual equivalent to bisection. However, in controls, prisms produced 'neglect-like' deficits on both the line bisection and landmark tasks. These data suggest that prisms influence visually guided actions more so than perception in neglect.
- Published
- 2010