Auditory deficits in visuospatial neglect patients. Pavani, F., Husain, M., Ladavas, E., & Driver, J. Cortex, 40(2):347–65, 2004.
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Since the pioneering experimental work of Bisiach et al. (1984) on deficits in sound localisation associated with unilateral brain lesions and visual neglect, a number of systematic investigations have examined auditory processing in visuospatial neglect patients. Evidence from a variety of experimental paradigms has revealed some auditory deficits in detection and identification tasks, during bilateral stimulation; plus localisation deficits for single sounds. These deficits emerge predominantly for contra-lesional sounds, although some auditory disturbances applying to both contra- and ipsilesional sounds have also been documented. Here we review evidence suggesting that some of these auditory deficits arise in relatively high-level stages of spatial processing. In addition, we present new analyses showing that auditory deficits in identification and localisation tasks often correlate with clinical measures of visual neglect, across a variety of different studies and tasks. This empirical relation suggests that a disturbance of multisensory spatial processing may often account for the joint auditory and visual spatial deficits in neglect patients, although rarer dissociations between the modalities should also be considered.
@article{pavani_auditory_2004,
	title = {Auditory deficits in visuospatial neglect patients},
	volume = {40},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15156793},
	doi = {10/dfvh6q},
	abstract = {Since the pioneering experimental work of Bisiach et al. (1984) on deficits in sound localisation associated with unilateral brain lesions and visual neglect, a number of systematic investigations have examined auditory processing in visuospatial neglect patients. Evidence from a variety of experimental paradigms has revealed some auditory deficits in detection and identification tasks, during bilateral stimulation; plus localisation deficits for single sounds. These deficits emerge predominantly for contra-lesional sounds, although some auditory disturbances applying to both contra- and ipsilesional sounds have also been documented. Here we review evidence suggesting that some of these auditory deficits arise in relatively high-level stages of spatial processing. In addition, we present new analyses showing that auditory deficits in identification and localisation tasks often correlate with clinical measures of visual neglect, across a variety of different studies and tasks. This empirical relation suggests that a disturbance of multisensory spatial processing may often account for the joint auditory and visual spatial deficits in neglect patients, although rarer dissociations between the modalities should also be considered.},
	number = {2},
	journal = {Cortex},
	author = {Pavani, F. and Husain, M. and Ladavas, E. and Driver, J.},
	year = {2004},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Auditory Perception/physiology, Dichotic Listening Tests, Differential Threshold/*physiology, Hearing Disorders/*complications/diagnosis/physiopathology, Humans, Laterality/physiology, Mental Processes/physiology, Perceptual Disorders/complications/*physiopathology, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Sound Localization/*physiology, Space Perception/*physiology, Vision Disorders/*complications/physiopathology},
	pages = {347--65},
}

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