Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 47-52 , January 2011

Line bisection in unilateral homonymous visual field defects

  • Susanne Schuett

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, University of Durham, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychology, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham City DH1 3LE, UK.
    • ,
  • Ruth Dauner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
    • ,
  • Josef Zihl

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Neuropsychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
    • Max-Planck-Institute of Psychiatry, Neuropsychology, Munich, Germany

Received 20 July 2009 ,Revised 27 November 2009 ,Accepted 16 January 2010.

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PII: S0010-9452(10)00032-8

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.01.008

Cortex
Volume 47, Issue 1 , Pages 47-52 , January 2011

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