Abstract
In the late 1970's Edoardo Bisiach and his coworkers provided definitive evidence that spatial unilateral neglect involves a disorder of the internal representation of extra-personal space. A few years later Bisiach and Berti (1987) revived the so far neglected contribution of an Austrian neurologist, Hermann Zingerle (1913). Ninety years ago Zingerle had described the symptom-complex of two right-brain-damaged patients, who showed left hemisomatoagnosia, unawareness of left hemiplegia, and left motor neglect. In addition to the detailed case reports, Zingerle had put forward a unitary interpretation of these deficits in terms of a disordered representation of one side of the body (dyschiria). A unitary representational account of these unilateral impairments was conspicuously absent in the contemporary neurological literature (Anton, Pick, Babinski), and attracted Bisiach's interest. An abridged translation of Zingerle's paper is provided. The clinical case reports and Zingerle's conclusions are discussed, with reference both to Bisiach's views, and to present knowledge of unilateral spatial neglect.
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