Prior studies have shown that strabismic amblyopes do not exhibit pseudoneglect in visual line bisection, suggesting that the right-hemisphere dominance in the control of spatial attention may depend on a normally developing binocular vision. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether an abnormal binocular childhood experience also affects spatial attention in the haptic modality, thus reflecting a supramodal effect. To this aim, we compared the performance of normally sighted, strabismic and early monocular blind participants in a visual and a haptic line bisection task. In visual line bisection, strabismic individuals tended to err to the right of the veridical midpoint, in contrast with normally sighted participants who showed pseudoneglect. Monocular blind participants exhibited high variability in their visual performance, with a tendency to bisect toward the direction of the functioning eye. In turn, in haptic bisection, all participants consistently erred towards the left of the veridical midpoint. Taken together, our findings support the view that pseudoneglect in the visual and haptic modality relies on different functional and neural mechanisms

Ciricugno, A., Rinaldi, L., Vecchi, T., Merabet, L., Cattaneo, Z. (2020). The Role of Binocular Vision in Driving Pseudoneglect in Visual and Haptic Bisection: Evidence from Strabismic and Monocular Blind Individuals. MULTISENSORY RESEARCH, 33(4-5), 549-567 [10.1163/22134808-20191347].

The Role of Binocular Vision in Driving Pseudoneglect in Visual and Haptic Bisection: Evidence from Strabismic and Monocular Blind Individuals

Rinaldi, L;Cattaneo, Z
2020

Abstract

Prior studies have shown that strabismic amblyopes do not exhibit pseudoneglect in visual line bisection, suggesting that the right-hemisphere dominance in the control of spatial attention may depend on a normally developing binocular vision. In this study, we aimed to investigate whether an abnormal binocular childhood experience also affects spatial attention in the haptic modality, thus reflecting a supramodal effect. To this aim, we compared the performance of normally sighted, strabismic and early monocular blind participants in a visual and a haptic line bisection task. In visual line bisection, strabismic individuals tended to err to the right of the veridical midpoint, in contrast with normally sighted participants who showed pseudoneglect. Monocular blind participants exhibited high variability in their visual performance, with a tendency to bisect toward the direction of the functioning eye. In turn, in haptic bisection, all participants consistently erred towards the left of the veridical midpoint. Taken together, our findings support the view that pseudoneglect in the visual and haptic modality relies on different functional and neural mechanisms
Articolo in rivista - Articolo scientifico
binocular vision; Line bisection; monocular blindness; pseudoneglect; strabismus
English
17-mar-2020
2020
33
4-5
549
567
none
Ciricugno, A., Rinaldi, L., Vecchi, T., Merabet, L., Cattaneo, Z. (2020). The Role of Binocular Vision in Driving Pseudoneglect in Visual and Haptic Bisection: Evidence from Strabismic and Monocular Blind Individuals. MULTISENSORY RESEARCH, 33(4-5), 549-567 [10.1163/22134808-20191347].
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