User:NeuroSopheR/Pseudoneglect

The term pseudoneglect refers to the natural tedency of shifting spatial attention to the left. The concept was introduced evidenced by experimental findings regarding the line bisection task. In this task, participants shall mark the middle of a horizontal line. On average, their deviations from the actual center of the line tend to be more to the left than to the right. In other visuo-spatial tasks, a similar bias to the left hemifield is apparent, too. Pseudoneglect shows similarities to impairments in patients suffering from a medial condition called hemispatial neglect. However, the effects of pseudoneglect are marginally small and mainly restricted to experimental settings in scientifics labs.

Pseudoneglect has been reported for left-handed as well as right-handed people. The bias to the left side is more pronounced in right-handers.

Literatur

 * Bowers, Dawn und Heilman, Kenneth M.:  doi
 * Jewell, George und McCourt, Mark E.:  doi