Measuring gaze and arrow cuing effects with a short test adapted to brain damaged patients with unilateral spatial neglect: A preliminary study

Narison, Rindra, de Montalembert, Marie, Bayliss, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4810-7758 and Conty, Laurence (2021) Measuring gaze and arrow cuing effects with a short test adapted to brain damaged patients with unilateral spatial neglect: A preliminary study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. ISSN 1664-1078

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Abstract

People with left unilateral spatial neglect (USN) following a right brain lesion show difficulty in orienting their attention toward stimuli presented on the left. However, cuing the stimuli with gaze direction or a pointing arrow can help some of them to compensate for this difficulty. In order to build a tool that helps to identify these patients, we needed a short version of the paradigm classically used to test gaze and arow cuing effects in healthy adults, adapted to the capacities of patients with severe attention deficit. Here, we tested the robustness of the cuing effects measured by such a short version in 48 young adult healthy participants, 46 older healthy participants, 10 patients with left USN following a right brain lesion (USN+), and 10 patients with right brain lesions but no USN (USN–). We observed gaze and arrow cuing effects in all populations, independently of age and presence or absence of a right brain lesion. In the neglect field, the USN+ group showed event greater cuing effect than older healthy participants and the USN– group. We showed that gaze and arrow cuing effects are powerful enough to be detected in a very short test adapted to the capacities of older patients with severe attention deficits, which increases their applicability in rehabilitation settings. We further concluded that our test is a suitable basis to develop a tool that will help neuropsychologists to identify USN patients who respond to gaze and/or arrow cuing in their neglect field.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: arrow cuing,gaze cuing,gaze liking effect,left unilateral spatial neglect,right brain lesion,psychology(all),2* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3200
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Social Cognition Research Group
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Date Deposited: 17 Jul 2021 00:12
Last Modified: 01 May 2024 09:30
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80612
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.690197

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