DESCRIPTION (Adapted from the Investigator's Abstract): A series of 18
experiments are designed to systematically characterize neglect patients
ability to process visual information within their neglected field. These
studies are based on a convergence between recent empirical evidence of
preserved visual information processing in the contralateral field of
patients with neglect, and recent theories and data regarding attention and
the binding of information in normal vision. Ninety patients with neglect,
45 patients with hemianopsia and 90 matched control subjects will be tested
with four sets of studies that are designed 1) to assess processing of
visual features and their binding into objects; 2) the processing of space
and its binding to features and objects; 3) the processed involved in
preparing a response an binding it to objects; and 4) the process involved
in preparing a response and binding it to specific spatial locations. The
results will be relevant to clinical evidence of object versus spatially
centered neglect and attentional versus intentional neglect. Examining each
of these processes independently will allow further specification of the
information processing deficit in neglect and help fit the disorder more
clearly within the taxonomy of perceptual and attentional processes
developed in normals. The experiments include variations of previously
developed yoked implicit and explicit paradigms that have been used with
neglect patients in the PI's laboratory, as well as novel procedures
extensively piloted in normal subjects. The data should provide a new
understanding of the clinical phenomenon of neglect as well as basic
information about the neuropsychology of attention and higher visual
processes. The data should also have relevance to understanding normal
operations of these processes.
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
CFDA Code
854
DUNS Number
047006379
UEI
JDLVAVGYJQ21
Project Start Date
24-September-1993
Project End Date
31-December-2001
Budget Start Date
01-January-2000
Budget End Date
31-December-2000
Project Funding Information for 2000
Total Funding
$169,660
Direct Costs
$126,896
Indirect Costs
$42,764
Year
Funding IC
FY Total Cost by IC
2000
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
$169,660
Year
Funding IC
FY Total Cost by IC
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