NEAR AND FAR VISUAL SPACE IN UNILATERAL NEGLECT

A 24-year-old right-handed woman with a right temporal hematoma showed marked left visual neglect for far but not near space in a variety of tasks systematically given in near and far distance conditions. This case thus provides the dissociation opposite to Halligan and Marshall' s patient, who had neglect for near but not far space after a right pa rietal stroke. Furthermore, although she made rightward errors in bise cting far-distant lines, our patient made smaller opposite leftward er rors for near-distant lines. The evidence that unilateral neglect of f ar and near visual space may exist independently supports a division i n the neural systems subserving attention to different compartments of the extrapersonal space in humans.