Ian H. Robertson (ed.) - Unilateral Neglect: Clinical and Experimental Studies

UNILATERAL NEGLECT

Unilateral Neglect: Clinical and Experimental Studies

edited by

Ian H. Robertson

Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, UK

John C. Marshall

Neuropsychology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK

Copyright 1993 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Unilateral Neglect : Clinical and Experimental Studies. (Brian Damage. Behaviour & Cognition Series. ISSN 09679944)

I. Robertson. Ian II. Marshall. John C.

II. Series

616.89

ISBN 0 86377 208 0 (Hbk)

ISBN 0 86377 218 8 (Pbk)

Author and subject indices by Sue Ramsey

Contents

Peter W. Halligan and John C. Marshall

Giuseppe Vallar

Marcel Kinsbourne

Giacomo Rizzolatti and Anna Berti

Guido Gainotti

Martha J. Farah, Marcie A. Wallace, and Shaun P. Vecera

Glyn W. Humphreys and M. Jane Riddoch

Lynn C. Robertson and Mirjam Eglin

Elisabetta Ldavas

Reinhard Werth

Andrew W. Ellis, Andrew W. Young, and Brenda M. Flude

Ian H. Robertson

Ian H. Robertson, Peter W. Halligan, and John C. Marshall

Leonard Diller and Ellen Riley

John C. Marshall, Peter W. Halligan, and Ian H. Robertson

List of Contributors

Anna Berti, Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Universit degli Studi di Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy

Leonard Diller, Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU MC, 400 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10016, USA

Mirjam Eglin, Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

Andrew W. Ellis, Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO1 5DD, UK

Martha J. Farah, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3815 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 191046196, USA

Brenda M. Flude, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YF, UK

Guido Gainotti, Institute of Neurology of the Catholic University of Rome, Policlinico Gemelli, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168 Rome, Italy

Peter W. Halligan, Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre, Abingdon Road, Oxford OX1 4XD, UK

Glynn W. Humphreys, Cognitive Science Research Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

Marcel Kinsbourne, Center for Cognitive Science, Tufts University, 11 Miner Hall, Medford, MA 02155, USA

Elisabetta Ldavas, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Viale Berti Pichat 5, Bologna, Italy

John C. Marshall, Neuropsychology Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK

M. Jane Riddoch, Cognitive Science Research Centre, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK

Ellen Riley, Jewish Home & Hospital for the Aged, 100 West Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, NY 10468, USA

Giacomo Rizzolatti, Istituto di Fisiologia Umana, Universit degli Studi di Parma, Via Gramsci 14, 43100 Parma, Italy

Ian H. Robertson, Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK

Lynn C. Robertson, Neurology Service 127, Veterans Administration Medical Center, 150 Muir Road, Martinez, CA 94553, or Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, CA 956168768, USA

Giuseppe Vallar, Dipartimento di Psicologia, Universita La Sapienza, Via dei Marsi 78, 00185, Roma, Italy

Shaun P. Vecera, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Marcie A. Wallace, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Reinhard Werth, Institut fr Soziale Paediatrie und Jugendmedizin, Universitat Munchen, Heiglhofstrasse 63, D-8000 Mnchen 70, Germany

Andrew W. Young, Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, UK

Brain Damage, Behaviour and Cognition

Developments in Clinical Neuropsychology

Series Editors

Chris Code, University of Sydney, Australia

Dave Mller,Suffolk College of Higher and Further Education, U.K.

Published titles

Cognitive Rehabilitation Using Microcomputers

Veronica A. Bradley, John L Welch and Clive E. Skilbeck

The Characteristics of Aphasia

Chris Code (Ed.)

Neuropsychology and the Dementias

Siobhan Hart and James M. Semple

Acquired Neurological Speech/Language Disorders in Childhood

Bruce E. Murdoch (Ed.)

Neuropsychology of the Amnesic Syndrome

Alan J. Parkin and Nicholas R.C. Leng

Clinical and Neuropsychological Aspects of Closed Head Injury

John T.E. Richardson

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Acquired Apraxia of Speech in Aphasic Adults

Paula A. Square (Ed.)

Cognitive Rehabilitation in Perspective

Rodger Wood and Ian Fussey (Eds)

Forthcoming title

The Neuropsychology of Schizophrenia

Anthony S. David and John C. Cutting (Eds)

Series Preface

From being an area primarily on the periphery of mainstream behavioural and cognitive science, neuropsychology has developed in recent years into an area of central concern for a range of disciplines. We are witnessing not only a revolution in the way in which brain-behaviour-cognition relationships are viewed, but a widening of interest concerning developments in neuropsychology on the part of a range of workers in a variety of fields. Major advances in brain-imaging techniques and the cognitive modelling of the impairments following brain damage promise a wider understanding of the nature of the representation of cognition and behaviour in the damaged and undamaged brain.

Neuropsychology is now centrally important for those working with brain-damaged people, but the very rate of expansion in the area makes it difficult to keep up with findings from current research. The aim of the Brain Damage, Behaviour and Cognition series is to publish a wide range of books which present comprehensive and up-to-date overviews of current developments in specific areas of interest.

These books will be of particular interest to those working with the braindamaged. It is the editors intention that undergraduates, postgraduates, clinicians and researchers in psychology, speech pathology and medicine will find this series a useful source of information on important current developments. The authors and editors of the books in this series are experts in their respective fields, working at the forefront of contemporary research. They have produced texts which are accessible and scholarly. We thank them for their contribution and their hard work in fulfilling the aims of the series.

CC and DJM

Sydney, Australia and Ipswich, UK

Series Editors

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