Identifying the physiological processes underlying the emergence and maintenance of
consciousness is one of the most fundamental problems of neuroscience, with implications …

Skillful interaction with the world requires that the brain uses a multitude of sensorimotor
programs and subroutines, such as for reaching, gras**, and the coordination of the two …

Aims Patients with homonymous hemianopia may present a subtle ipsilesional deficit,
recently referred to as 'sightblindness' in addition to the contralesional visual field defect. We …

Objectives In addition to exhibiting a severe contralesional deficit, hemianopic patients may
also show a subtle ipsilesional visual deficit, called sightblindness (the reverse case of …

The generation and maintenance of consciousness are fundamental but difficult subjects in
the fields of psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, and medicine. However, recent …

Deep, dreamless sleep is considered the only “normal” state under which consciousness is
lost. The main reason for the voluntary, external induction of an unconscious state, via …

A right-hemisphere dominance for visuospatial attention has been invoked as the most
prominent neural feature of pseudoneglect (ie, the leftward visuospatial bias exhibited in …

Perceptual attention in healthy participants is characterized by two biases, one operating in
the horizontal plane, which draws attention leftward, and the other operating in the vertical …

Theoretical models of visual neglect and extinction entail claims about the normal
functioning of attention and parietal cortex in the healthy brain:(1)'pseudoneglect', a …

Present knowledge of attention and awareness centres on deficits in patients with right brain
damage who show severe forms of inattention to the left, called spatial neglect. Yet the …