PubMed · 11863036
Frames of reference in unilateral neglect and visual perception: a computational perspective.
Abstract
Neurological patients with unilateral neglect fail to orient and respond to stimuli on one side, typically the left. A key research issue is whether neglect is exhibited with respect to the left side of the viewer or of objects. When deficits in attentional allocation depend not merely on an object's location with respect to the viewer but on the object's intrinsic extent, shape, or movement, researchers have inferred that attention must be operating in an object-based frame of reference. Simulations of a view-based connectionist model of spatial attention prove that this inference is not logically necessary: Object-based attentional effects can be obtained without object-based frames. The model thus explains away troublesome phenomena for view-based theories of object recognition.
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Michael C Mozer. 2002. Frames of reference in unilateral neglect and visual perception: a computational perspective.. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-295x.109.1.156
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