Anton Raederscheidt's distorted self-portraits and their significance for understanding balance in art.

Following a right cerebral stroke, the German artist Anton Raederscheidt produced a remarkable series of self-portraits that depicted his severe visual neglect and gradual recovery. These distorted images, like those drawn by others with this disorder, inform us about lateral balance in art and why it is common in the art of cultures separated in time and space. After describing how artists in various cultures have employed lateral balance, I present Arnheim's view that this aspect of art is the result of visual forces generated by the brain.

Selective visual attention, visual search and visual awareness.

In a previous study, Butter and Goodale (2000) reported that visual search increases the identification of targets relative to distracters. The present series of studies investigated further this effect of search. Search increased identification of Ls when they were targets and decreased their identification when Ls were distracters in concurrent search involving feature conjunctions (Exp.

Reading direction and spatial neglect.

Many American and European investigators have reported that hemispatial neglect is more frequent and more severe after right than left hemisphere lesions. This hemispheric asymmetry may be due to biological asymmetries, learned behavior, or both. Readers of European languages, unlike readers of Semitic languages, scan from left to right.