Re: auditory hemi-neglect

Deouell, L. Y., Deutsch, D., Scabini, D., Soroker, N., and Knight, R. T. No disillusions in Auditory Extinction: Perceiving a Melody Comprised of Unperceived Notes. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2008, Volume 1, article 15, 1 - 6 [Web Link]

The study used the scale illusion:

Deutsch, D. Two-channel listening to musical scales . JASA, 1975, 57, 1156-1160. [PDF Document] [Web Link] to demonstrate in two patients with auditory neglect that the source of their neglect was high-level rather than based on ear of input. I'd be happy to send a PDF to anyone who's interested.

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Diana

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On Apr 24, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Dennis P. Phillips wrote:

Hello Everyone:

This is a followup to Peter Lennox's post of this morning, which prompted the question of whether there is significant evidence for auditory hemi-neglect. There are some older case studies which describe what might be an auditory analog of visual hemi-neglect. See, for example, KM Heilman & E Valenstein (1972, Auditory neglect in man. Arch Neurol., 26: 32-35). Apparently, work on the topic is ongoing. See L Spierer et al. (2007, Extinction of auditory stimuli in hemineglect: Space versus ear. Neuropsychologia, 45: 540-551). I hope that this helps. Kind wishes,

Dennis

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