Abstract
We report a case of severe left visuo-spatial neglect consequent upon right-hemisphere stroke. In Experiment 1, horizontal and vertical (radial) line bisection is performed; the patient displays left neglect and “altitudinal” (radial) neglect, placing his transections too far to the right and to the top, respectively. In Experiment 2, the patient is required to place a dot at the centre of squares and circles, the horizontal and vertical extents of which are identical to the length of the lines employed in Experiment 1. Performance is now extremely accurate. In Experiment 3, the height of the rectangular or elliptical figure whose midpoint is to be estimated is held constant whilst length varies. In Experiment 4, the length of the figure is held constant whilst height is varied. Both manipulations exert a profound, lawful influence on the patient's estimate of each figure's midpoint. We provide some preliminary hypotheses concerning how configurational constraints may affect perceptual and attentional processes in visual neglect.
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