Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 3 , Pages 353-366 , March 2011

Prism adaptation does not change the rightward spatial preference bias found with ambiguous stimuli in unilateral neglect

  • Margarita Sarri

      Affiliations

    • MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF, UK.
    • ,
  • Richard Greenwood

      Affiliations

    • Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, Homerton University Hospital, London, UK
    • ,
  • Lalit Kalra

      Affiliations

    • Department of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' School of Medicine, Denmark Hill Campus, London, UK
    • ,
  • Jon Driver

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK

Received 27 April 2009 ,Revised 15 December 2009 ,Accepted 29 December 2009.

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