Publications by authors named "Giulia Barra"
Front Psychol
January 2019
Article Synopsis
- E+ Disorder Overview
- : E+ is a delusion after brain damage where patients perceive an 'alien' arm as their own, particularly affecting their awareness of their contralesional space due to spatial neglect.
- Research Method
- : The study involved four left neglect patients, some embodying the alien arm and some not, who underwent prismatic training with the 'alien' arm moving toward visual targets, comparing first-person (body-congruent) and third-person (body-incongruent) perspectives.
- Findings
- : Results showed that neglect symptoms improved significantly more in patients with E+ during first-person perspective training, suggesting that their embodiment of the 'alien' arm modifies spatial representation in their
