Publications by authors named "Ulrike Baas"
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- The study investigates the cognitive mechanisms behind personal neglect, particularly focusing on how individuals with right hemisphere brain lesions represent their bodies and nearby spaces.
- Researchers compared 22 patients with right hemisphere lesions (7 with personal neglect) and 13 healthy controls using tasks that involved identifying left and right hands and mirrors.
- Results showed that patients with personal neglect struggled more with identifying left-sided stimuli, indicating that poor body representation is a key factor in this condition, while other issues like space neglect or motor impairments did not significantly relate to personal neglect.
Spontaneous confabulation is a rare memory disorder resulting from orbitofrontal damage or disconnection. Patients act on the basis of memories that do not pertain to the current situation, and are disoriented. No medical treatment is known.
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