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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2017 Dec 21;99:273–280. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.12.008

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Mean interpolated results for the four groups tested: no brain damage (NBD), right brain damage with no acute or chronic neglect (RBD), recovered neglect (NR) and chronic neglect (NEG). The vertical axis shows the frequency with which individuals reported the right item appeared first. The horizontal axis shows the stimulus onset asynchrony (in ms), for example ‘−500’ indicates that the left letter appeared one half second before the right letter. A perfect responder would report the right item for 0% of the negative values and 100% of the positive values. Note that as a group, the 15 healthy controls had a small but statistically reliable tendency to report the left item appeared first in the ambiguous case of simultaneous stimulation (an effect previous reported for individuals used to reading left-to-right scripts). On the other hand, the neglect group showed a pathological bias such that the left item needed a substantial lead to be reported as appearing first. Note that this effect is modulated by torso position: with a reduced bias when the display was to the right of the midsagittal midline.