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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 669-671 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Perception |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Keywords
- Anti-extinction
- Extinction
- Neglect
- Semmes-weinstein
- Somatosensory
- Tactile