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 |