Abstract
The relationship between unilateral visual neglect and production of narrative discourse in five patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) was examined longitudinally. Initially, all subjects demonstrated a left unilateral neglect on the Behavioural Inattention Test. During subsequent testing at 6-8 months and 12-16 months post-onset, subjects with a persistent unilateral neglect produced less concise discourse with reductions in the percentage of meaningful content units as compared to a group of control subjects. Subjects with a transient unilateral neglect produced informational content that was comparable to the normal subjects. Results support the notion that the presence and persistence of a unilateral visual neglect might assist in delineating more homogeneous groups of RHD subjects.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 351-363 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Aphasiology |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 4-5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1997 |
Funding
This study was supported by Grant 5 R03 DCOl335 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, and Grant H133B30024 from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Department of Education. The authors thank Mary Boyle, Penny Myers, and Don Robin for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Otorhinolaryngology
- Language and Linguistics
- Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Linguistics and Language
- Neurology
- Clinical Neurology
- LPN and LVN