Unilateral neglect: further validation of the baking tray task

the effects of time planning and task complexity on accuracy of narrative task performance

هدف اصلی این تحقیق بررسی تاثیر برنامه ریزی زمانی، هم چنین افزایش میزان پیچیدگی تکالیف در نظر گرفته شده بصورت همزمان، بر دقت و صحت و پیچیدگی عملکرد نوشتاری زبان آموزان می باشد. بدین منظور، 50 نفر از دانش آموزان دختر در رده ی سنی 16 الی 18 سال به عنوان شرکت کنندگان در این زمینه ی تحقیق در نظر گرفته شدند و به دو گروه آزمایشی و کنترل بصورت اتفاقی تقسیم شدند. اعضای گروه آزمایشی هر دو تکلیف ساده و پی...

Assessment of unilateral neglect.

U nilateral neglect (ULN) (or “neglect”) is a common behavioral syndrome in patients following stroke. The reported incidence of ULN varies widely from 10%1 to 82%2 following right-hemisphere stroke and from 15%3 to 65%2 following left-hemisphere stroke. Reasons for the variability in the published rates of occurrence of ULN after stroke include subject selection criteria, lesion site, and the ...

the evaluation of language related engagment and task related engagment with the purpose of investigating the effect of metatalk and task typology

abstract while task-based instruction is considered as the most effective way to learn a language in the related literature, it is oversimplified on various grounds. different variables may affect how students are engaged with not only the language but also with the task itself. the present study was conducted to investigate language and task related engagement on the basis of the task typolog...

Swan Unilateral Spatial Neglect

Beyond unilateral neglect.

When required to set the endpoints of an imaginary horizontal line of a given length on the basis of its midpoint printed on a sheet of paper, left neglect patients most frequently misplaced endpoints leftwards. Though giving rise to the very same disproportion usually found with these patients on canonical line bisection tasks, this behaviour cannot be accommodated by current explanations of u...