Attention in Near Space 1 RUNNING HEAD: Attention in Near Space Right Hemisphere Control of Visuospatial Attention in Near Space

RUNNING HEAD: Attention in Near Space Right Hemisphere Control of Visuospatial Attention in Near Space

Right hemisphere control of visuospatial attention in near space.

Traditionally, the right cerebral hemisphere has been considered to be specialized for spatial attention and orienting. A large body of research has demonstrated dissociable representations of the near space immediately surrounding the body and the more distance far space. In this study, we investigated whether right hemisphere activations commonly reported for tasks involving spatial attention...

Body ownership in the mirror 1 Running Head: BODY OWNERSHIP IN THE MIRROR Body ownership and attention in the mirror: Insights from somatoparaphrenia and the rubber hand illusion

The brain receives and synthesises information about the body from different modalities, coordinates and perspectives, and affords us with a coherent and stable sense of body ownership. We studied this sense in a somatoparaphrenic patient and three control patients, all with unilateral right-hemisphere lesions. We experimentally manipulated the visual perspective (direct-versus mirror-view) and...

Near and far space: Understanding the neural mechanisms of spatial attention.

Visuospatial neglect is a multicomponent syndrome, and one dissociation reported is between neglect for near (peripersonal) and far (extrapersonal) space. Owing to patient heterogeneity and extensive lesions, it is difficult to determine the precise neural mechanisms underlying this dissociation using clinical methodology. In this study, transcranial magnetic stimulation was used to examine the...

Body ownership and attention in the mirror: insights from somatoparaphrenia and the rubber hand illusion.

The brain receives and synthesises information about the body from different modalities, coordinates and perspectives, and affords us with a coherent and stable sense of body ownership. We studied this sense in a somatoparaphrenic patient and three control patients, all with unilateral right-hemisphere lesions. We experimentally manipulated the visual perspective (direct- versus mirror-view) an...