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Article Dans Une Revue Neuropsychologia Année : 2024

The line bisection bias as a deficit of proportional reasoning − evidence from number line estimation in neglect

S. Smaczny
S. Jung
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K. Moeller
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H.-O. Karnath
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This study aimed to investigate whether neurological patients presenting with a bias in line bisection show specific problems in bisecting a line into two equal parts or their line bisection bias rather reflects a special case of a deficit in proportional reasoning more generally. In the latter case, the bias should also be observed for segmentations into thirds or quarters. To address this question, six neglect patients with a line bisection bias were administered additional tasks involving horizontal lines (e.g., segmentation into thirds and quarters, number line estimation, etc.). Their performance was compared to five neglect patients without a line bisection bias, 10 patients with right hemispheric lesions without neglect, and 32 healthy controls. Most interestingly, results indicated that neglect patients with a line bisection bias also overestimated segments on the left of the line (e.g., one third, one quarter) when dissecting lines into parts smaller than halves. In contrast, such segmentation biases were more nuanced when the required line segmentation was framed as a number line estimation task with either fractions or whole numbers. Taken together, this suggests a generalization of line bisection bias towards a segmentation or proportional processing bias, which is congruent with attentional weighting accounts of line bisection/neglect. As such, patients with a line bisection bias do not seem to have specific problems bisecting a line, but seem to suffer from a more general deficit processing proportions.
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hal-04599385 , version 1 (03-06-2024)

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S. Smaczny, E. Klein, S. Jung, K. Moeller, H.-O. Karnath. The line bisection bias as a deficit of proportional reasoning − evidence from number line estimation in neglect. Neuropsychologia, 2024, 196, pp.108848. ⟨10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108848⟩. ⟨hal-04599385⟩
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