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Attention is a term which derives from the common experience that physically identical stimuli may be perceived at different moments with different degrees of subjective clearness. Attention includes intensive phenomena, such as arousal, alertness, or attentiveness and selective phenomena. To the group of selective phenomena belongs the capacity to orient attention to different sectors of space: spatial attention. Deficits of this capacity are frequently encountered in patients in the form usually described as hemineglect. These patients, in the absence of primary sensory or motor deficits that may justify the symptoms, have difficulties in noticing events in the space contralateral to the lesion and to explore this space actively [see 1, 3].
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Rizzolatti, G. (1986). Anatomical Basis of Spatial Attention. In: Poeck, K., Freund, HJ., Gänshirt, H. (eds) Neurology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70007-1_18
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