Temporal order judgements as a sensitive measure of the spatial bias in patients with visuospatial neglect

Stefan Van der Stigchel; Tanja C. W. Nijboer

doi:10.1111/jnp.12118

Temporal order judgements as a sensitive measure of the spatial bias in patients with visuospatial neglect

Journal of Neuropsychology ◽

10.1111/jnp.12118 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 427-441 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefan Van der Stigchel ◽

Tanja C. W. Nijboer

Keyword(s):

Temporal Order ◽

Spatial Bias ◽

Visuospatial Neglect ◽

Sensitive Measure

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Dissociating ego- and allocentric neglect after stroke: prevalence, laterality and outcome predictors

10.1101/200386 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nele Demeyere ◽

Celine R. Gillebert

Keyword(s):

Acute Stroke ◽

Outcome Predictors ◽

Spatial Bias ◽

Stroke Patients ◽

Visuospatial Neglect ◽

Double Dissociation ◽

Stroke Prevalence ◽

Cognitive Screen ◽

Contralesional Side

AbstractVisuospatial neglect is a neuropsychological condition commonly experienced after stroke, whereby a patient is unable to attend to stimuli on their contralesional side. We aimed to investigate whether egocentric and allocentric neglect are functionally dissociable and differ in prevalence, laterality and outcome predictors. A consecutive sample of 366 acute stroke patients completed the Broken Hearts test from the Oxford Cognitive Screen. A subsample of 160 patients was followed up 6 months later. We evaluated the association between egocentric and allocentric neglect, contrasted the prevalence and severity of left-sided versus right-sided neglect, and determined the predictors of persistence versus recovery at follow up. Clinically, we found a double dissociation between ego- and allocentric neglect, with 50% of the neglect patients showing ‘only’ egocentric neglect and 25% ‘only’ allocentric neglect. Importantly, patients with only allocentric neglect did not demonstrate any egocentric spatial bias in the locations of the allocentric errors. Left-sided egocentric neglect was more prevalent and more severe than right-sided egocentric neglect, though right-sided neglect was still highly prevalent in the acute stroke sample (35%). Leftsided allocentric neglect was more severe but not more prevalent than right-sided allocentric neglect. Overall recovery of neglect was high: 81% of egocentric and 75% of allocentric neglect patients recovered. Severity of neglect was the only significant behavioural measure for predicting recovery at 6 months.

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The Relationship Between Texture Responses on the Rorschach and Adult Attachment

Rorschachiana Journal of the International Society for the Rorschach ◽

10.1027/1192-5604/a000002 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 4-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Kazunori Iwasa ◽

Toshiki Ogawa

Keyword(s):

Graduate Students ◽

Adult Attachment ◽

Japanese Population ◽

Attachment Anxiety ◽

Anxiety Scale ◽

Self Report ◽

Comprehensive System ◽

Attachment Avoidance ◽

Sensitive Measure ◽

The Relationship

We examined the relationship between texture responses (T) on the Rorschach and adult attachment in the Japanese population. 47 Japanese undergraduate and graduate students (mean age = 20.16, SD = 1.87) completed a self-report adult attachment scale as well as the Rorschach. An ANOVA revealed that T = 1 participants were attached more securely than were other groups. T > 1 participants were more preoccupied with attachment and scored higher on an attachment anxiety scale than the T = 1 group. Although these results were consistent with the interpretation of the texture response according to the Comprehensive System (CS), the results obtained for T = 0 participants were inconsistent with hypotheses derived from the CS. T = 0 participants were high on preoccupied and attachment anxiety scores, although they were theoretically expected to be high on dismissing or attachment avoidance. These results indicated that – at least in Japan – T should be regarded as a sensitive measure of attachment anxiety.

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Exploring the Boundaries of the Number–Temporal Order Association

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169/a000285 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 62 (3) ◽

pp. 198-205 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dana Ganor-Stern

Keyword(s):

Embodied Cognition ◽

Mental Representation ◽

Temporal Order ◽

Past Research ◽

Numerical Comparison ◽

Negative Number ◽

Comparison Task ◽

Negative Numbers ◽

The Past

Past research has shown that numbers are associated with order in time such that performance in a numerical comparison task is enhanced when number pairs appear in ascending order, when the larger number follows the smaller one. This was found in the past for the integers 1–9 ( Ben-Meir, Ganor-Stern, & Tzelgov, 2013 ; Müller & Schwarz, 2008 ). In the present study we explored whether the advantage for processing numbers in ascending order exists also for fractions and negative numbers. The results demonstrate this advantage for fraction pairs and for integer-fraction pairs. However, the opposite advantage for descending order was found for negative numbers and for positive-negative number pairs. These findings are interpreted in the context of embodied cognition approaches and current theories on the mental representation of fractions and negative numbers.

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