Adaptation to leftward-shifting prisms enhances local processing in healthy individuals

• Published in: Neuropsychologia Vol. 56; pp. 418 - 427
• Main Authors: Reed, Scott A., Dassonville, Paul
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adaptation, Physiological - physiology; Adolescent; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Attention - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; Disorders of higher nervous function. Focal brain diseases. Central vestibular syndrome and deafness. Brain stem syndromes; Female; Functional Laterality - physiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Global processing; Hemispatial neglect; Humans; Illusions; Local processing; Male; Medical sciences; Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes); Neurology; Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology; Perception; Photic Stimulation; Prism adaptation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Performance - physiology; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Vision; Visual Fields - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology; Young Adult; Prism adaptation; Global processing; Illusions; Hemispatial neglect; Local processing; Human; Perceptual adaptation; Nervous system diseases; Healthy subject; Spatial neglect; Perceptual illusion; Cognition; Experimental study; Cerebral disorder; Vision; Central nervous system disease; Global local processing; Perception; Neurological disorder

In healthy individuals, adaptation to left-shifting prisms has been shown to simulate the symptoms of hemispatial neglect, including a reduction in global processing that approximates the local bias observed in neglect patients. The current study tested whether leftward prism adaptation can more spe...