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Dissociable components of spatial neglect associated with frontal and parietal lesions

Saj, Arnaud ; Verdon, Vincent ; Hauert, Claude-Alain ; Vuilleumier, Patrik

In: Neuropsychologia, 2018, vol. 115, p. 60–69

Spatial neglect is a complex neuropsychological disorder, in which patients fail to detect and respond to contralesional stimuli. Recent studies suggest that these symptoms may reflect a combination of different component deficits, associated with different lesion substrates. Thus, damage to right lateral prefrontal and inferior parietal regions produce different degrees of left neglect on...

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A psycholinguistic investigation of football players’mental representations of game situations: Does expertise count?

Gygax, Pascal ; Wagner-Egger, Pascal ; Parris, Ben ; Seiler, Roland ; Hauert, Claude-Alain

In order to progress through a competitive sporting event, athletes need to form mental representations of the situations they encounter. In this paper, we present three experiments exploring the mental representations of football players when presented with written material describing football game situations. Experiment 1 assessed off-line processing by having players of different levels...