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Patients who seem to “ignore” objects or people on one side of space have been described in the medical literature for well over a century. The term “visuospatial neglect” is now used to describe the cluster of behaviors whereby patients after unilateral cerebral lesions (most frequently of right parietal cortex) fail to attend or explore (predominantly) the side of space contralateral to the lesion...
Some highlights of the ongoing study of visuospatial cognition from Descartes to the advent of functional neuroimaging are reviewed. We emphasize that parietal cortex contains multiple representations of space, appropriate to the demands of perception and action in near and far space. Converging evidence from the behavioral effects of relatively focal brain lesions on different aspects of spatial...
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