All of the Following Statements Are True of Patients with Unilateral

question 24

Multiple Choice

All of the following statements are true of patients with unilateral neglect syndrome EXCEPT

• A) in general, they seem to ignore half of the world.
• B) when their attention is directed toward a particular object, it often stays with that object.
• C) if an object previously attended to is moved into the ignored half of the world, patients will start to ignore the object.
• D) when asked to cross out all the letter E's on a page, patients with damage to the right parietal lobe will cross out only the E's on the right side of the page.

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