ERIC Number: EJ747705
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Feb
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-0278-2626
Exaggerated Leftward Bias in the Mental Number Line of Patients with Schizophrenia
Cavezian, Celine; Rossetti, Yves; Danckert, James; d'Amato, Thierry; Dalery, Jean; Saoud, Mohamed
Brain and Cognition, v63 n1 p85-90 Feb 2007
Several visuo-motor tasks can be used to demonstrate biases towards left hemispace in schizophrenic patients, suggesting a minor right hemineglect. Recent studies in neglect patients used a new number bisection task to highlight a lateralized defect in their visuo-spatial representation of numbers. To test a possible lateralized representational deficit in schizophrenia, we used the number bisection task in 11 schizophrenic patients compared to 11 healthy controls. Participants were required to orally indicate the central number of an interval orally presented. Whereas healthy subjects showed no significant bias, schizophrenic patients presented a significant leftward bias. Therefore, these results suggest an impairment in higher order representations of the number space in patients with schizophrenia, an impairment that is qualitatively similar to the deficit described in neglect patients.
Descriptors: Schizophrenia, Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups, Bias, Task Analysis, Numbers, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Cognitive Processes
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