When Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978) Asked Patients with the Neglect

question 68

Multiple Choice

When Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978) asked patients with the neglect syndrome to describe their own mental images of the Italian city in which they lived, the researchers found that

• A)these patients demonstrated a deficit in moving attention from one location in their mental images to another.
• B)patients had great difficulty in generating mental images in general.
• C)there was no evidence of neglect for internally generated mental images.
• D)the patients also neglected the contralesional side of their own mental images.

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