PROGRAM

EBBS Workshop on

Cognitive and Neural Bases of Spatial Neglect

organised by H.-O. Karnath, A.D. Milner & G. Vallar

Como (Italy) September 14-17, 2000

Thursday, September 14

Frameworks of neglect

Claudio Galletti (Bologna, Italy): Posterior parietal networks encoding visual space.

David Gaffan (Oxford,U.K.): Spatial organization of memory retrieval in monkeys and patients.

Elisabetta Làdavas (Bologna, Italy): Peripersonal space in humans.

 Anna Berti (Torino, Italy): Representation of far (extrapersonal) and near (peripersonal) space in neglect patients.

 

Scanning and eye movements

Marlene Behrmann (Pittsburgh, U.S.A.):  Looking without seeing or seeing with looking? – Evidence from eye movements in patients with hemispatial neglect.

Hans-Otto Karnath (Tübingen, Germany):  The exploration of space and of objects in space by neglect patients.

Jon Driver (London, U.K.): Pathological gradients, saccadic biases, and deficient spatial working memory as contributers to neglect.

 

Friday, September 15

Perceptual distortions

Edoardo Bisiach (Torino, Italy): Space anisometry in unilateral neglect.

Anjan Chatterjee (Philadelphia, U.S.A.): Representational anisometry and instability in unilateral spatial neglect.

Fabrizio Doricchi (Rome, Italy): Asymmetries, anisometries and space representations in left unilateral neglect.

Luigi Pizzamiglio (Rome, Italy): Navigation in neglect patients.

Giuseppe Vallar (Milano, Italy): Spatial and visual processing in unilateral neglect.

Poster session A

 

Saturday, September 16

Perceptual and motor neglect

David Milner (Durham, U.K.): Teasing apart perceptual and visuomotor aspects of spatial neglect.

Kenneth M. Heilman (Gainesville, U.S.A.): Intentional (premotor) neglect.

Sumio Ishiai (Tokyo, Japan): Perceptual and motor interaction in unilateral spatial neglect.

Peter W Halligan (Cardiff, U.K.): The role of hemispatial neglect in primary sensory deficits?

 

Rehabilitation of neglect

Ian H. Robertson (Dublin, Ireland): Cognitive routes to the rehabilitation of neglect.

Yves Rossetti (Bron, France): Space representation and the plasticity of intersensory coordination: a physiological basis for hemispatial neglect? 

Poster session B

 

Sunday, September 17

Relation of neglect to attention

Verity J. Brown (St. Andrews, U.K.): The neurobehavioural analysis of visuospatial attention in the rat.

Carlo Marzi (Verona, Italy): Differential distribution of spatial attention in hemianopic and hemineglect patients.

Jane Riddoch (Birmingham, U.K.): Characteristics of anti-extinction and extinction effects.