Abstract
The line bisection task--commonly used as a clinical measure of unilateral neglect--requires participants to place a mark on a horizontal line to indicate where they think centre is. In general, results suggest that the allocation of attention mediates bisection. In addition, previous research shows that participants rarely explore the endpoints of lines, suggesting that peripheral visual information informs bisection. Here, we examined bisection performance under conditions in which differing levels of 'noise' were introduced to the line to examine the hypothesis that the fidelity and symmetry of peripheral information would inform performance. Contrary to our expectations, results showed that symmetrically introducing noise to the line biased bisection further leftward compared to a 'no-noise' condition. Furthermore, asymmetrical noise increased leftward bisection errors primarily when lines were presented in left space or when the greater amount of noise was on the left half of the line. These results indicate that the fidelity of peripheral visual information mediates bisection behaviour that is already biased leftwards probably due to right hemisphere attentional mechanisms.
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