Anti-extinction in the tactile modality

Rebekah C. White, Anne M. Aimola Davies

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    Abstract

    Patients with extinction fail to report a contralesional stimulus when it is presented at the same time as an ipsilesional stimulus, and patients with unilateral neglect fail to report a contralesional stimulus even when there is no competing ipsilesional stimulus. Where as extinction and neglect are common following stroke, the related phenomenon of anti-extinction is rare-there are four cases of anti-extinction in the literature, and all four cases demonstrated anti-extinction in the visual modality. Patients with anti-extinction do report a contralesional stimulus when it is presented at the same time as an ipsilesional stimulus; but, like patients with neglect, they fail to report a contralesional stimulus when there is no competing ipsilesional stimulus. We present the first case of anti-extinction in the tactile modality.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)669-671
    Number of pages3
    JournalPerception
    Volume42
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Keywords

    • Anti-extinction
    • Extinction
    • Neglect
    • Semmes-weinstein
    • Somatosensory
    • Tactile

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