Table 3.
Poststroke hemispatial neglect symptoms.
| Domains | Categories | Deficits |
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| Modality | Perceptual neglect | Difficulty with allocating attention to visual, tactile, or auditory stimuli appearing on the contralesional side of space |
| Motor neglect | Reduced or slowed movements using the contralesional limb that cannot be attributed to primary motor deficit; reduced or slowed movements in/towards the contralesional side of space | |
| Representational neglect | Problems imagining or visualising the contralesional side of scenes | |
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| Reference frame | Egocentric | Underrepresentation of contralesional side of space in relation to one's own body/body parts (e.g., subjective estimate of one's body midline or straight ahead shifted towards the ipsilesional side) |
| Allocentric | Underrepresentation of contralesional side of spatial relationships between external objects separated in space (e.g., bisections of straight line shifted toward the end corresponding to the ipsilesional side) | |
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| Region of space | Personal | Reduced attention to contralesional side of the body |
| Peripersonal | Reduced attention to contralesional side of the space within one's reach | |
| Extrapersonal | Reduced attention to contralesional side of the space beyond one's reach | |