What is hemispatial neglect?
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Hemispatial neglect is a neurological condition in which a person fails to notice one side of space, usually the left side after damage to the right brain. It is not a vision problem alone; it is a problem of attention.
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Hemispatial neglect often occurs after a stroke or other injury to the right parietal lobe. A person may eat food only from one side of a plate, draw only one half of a clock, or ignore people standing on the neglected side. Unlike blindness, the ignored side can still be processed by the eyes and brain, but attention does not fully register it. The condition reveals how the brain constructs conscious awareness of space.
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