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Bored, tired? What’s left? The curious relationship between alertness and awareness of left space| old_uid | 5494 |
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| title | Bored, tired? What’s left? The curious relationship between alertness and awareness of left space |
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| start_date | 2008/10/29 |
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| schedule | 16h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Unilateral spatial neglect is a dramatic and surprisingly common consequence of stroke in which people have difficulty noticing, acting on or even thinking about information from one side of space. Research has linked the persistence of this debilitating condition with problems faced by patients in maintaining an alert, ready-to-respond state. Here, I outline work that began with this clinical condition but which led us to examine the relationships between alertness and spatial bias in other groups and in the healthy population – with somewhat surprising results!
Tom Manly is a clinical psychologist and researcher with the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge. In addition to peer reviewed publications and book chapters on neuropsychology, attention and executive function he is also the author of the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch). In 2007 he was awarded the Elizabeth Warrington Prize by the British Neuropsychological Society and in 2008 was awarded the Spearman Medal for an outstanding contribution to psychological literature by the British Psychological Society. |
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| responsibles | Bishop |
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