Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 10 , Pages 1156-1166 , November 2009

Looking left with left neglect: The role of spatial attention when active vision selects local image features for fixation

  • Radek Ptak

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Medical School, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Division of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospitals and University of Geneva, 26, Avenue de Beau-Séjour, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland.
    • ,
  • Laetitia Golay

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Medical School, University of Geneva, Switzerland
    • ,
  • René M. Müri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Armin Schnider

      Affiliations

    • Division of Neurorehabilitation, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland
    • Medical School, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Received 18 February 2008 ,Revised 14 July 2008 ,Accepted 3 October 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2008.10.001

Cortex
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