Line Bisection (Unilateral Neglect)

Patients will be asked to mark the middle of 8 lines with a width of 1 mm and of different lengths (6, 18, 10, 10, 18, 6, 6, and 10 cm), arranged on the left, the middle, or the right part of a A4 sheet of paper. The purpose of this test is to look for improvements in right hemisphere activation. The closer to the center that the patient ticks the line, the better the functioning. If the ticking of the center is greatly displaced to the right of the line, this is an indication of poor right lobe functioning. Deviation from the true middle of each line will be measured in mm. A positive score will indicate a rightward deviation, whereas a negative score will indicate a leftward deviation. Pathological left neglect scores correspond to rightward deviations superior to 11.1% (Bartolomeo & Chokron, 1999a)

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Education

Tags:

• Line
• Bisection

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This is an example of what it may look like when a stroke patient does this activity.