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Visual awareness relies on exogenous orienting of attention: Evidence from unilateral neglect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2002

Paolo Bartolomeo  and
Sylvie Chokron
Paolo Bartolomeo
Affiliation:
INSERM Unit 324, Centre Paul Broca, F-75014 Paris, Francepaolo@broca.inserm.fr http://paolo.broca.inserm.fr/
Sylvie Chokron
Affiliation:
LPE-CNRS UMR 5105, UPMF, BP 47 38000 Grenoble, France chokron@upmf-grenoble.fr http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/upmf/RECHERCHE/lpe/index.html
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Abstract

Unilateral neglect stems from a relatively selective impairment of exogenous, or stimulus-related, orienting of attention. This neuropsychological evidence parallels “change blindness” experiments, in which normal individuals lack awareness of salient details in the visual scene as a consequence of their attention being exogenously attracted by a competing event, suggesting that visual consciousness requires the integrity of exogenous orienting of attention.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 975 - 976
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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