Publications de Giuseppe Vallar

Disownership of body parts as revealed by a visual scale evaluation. An observational study

Olaf Blanke, Roberta Ronchi, Michela Bassolino, Giuseppe Vallar, Dragana Viceic

The disownership of body parts, that most frequently occurs on the left side of the body, contralateral to right-hemispheric lesions, is an infrequent disorder, as usually assessed by interviews asking for dichotomic "yes/no" responses. This observational ...

2020

Left neglect dyslexia: Perseveration and reading error types

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

Right-brain-damaged patients may show a reading disorder termed neglect dyslexia. Patients with left neglect dyslexia omit letters on the left-hand-side (the beginning, when reading left-to-right) part of the letter string, substitute them with other lette ...

Elsevier2016

(Un)awareness of unilateral spatial neglect: A quantitative evaluation of performance in visuo-spatial tasks

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

Right-brain-damaged patients with unilateral spatial neglect are usually unaware (anosognosic) about their spatial deficits. However, in the scientific literature there is a lack of systematic and quantitative evaluation of this kind of unawareness, despit ...

Elsevier Masson2014

Hyperschematia after right brain damage: a meaningful entity?

Roberta Ronchi, Giuseppe Vallar

In recent years we reported three right-brain-damaged patients, who exhibited a left-sided disprortionate expansion of drawings, both by copying and from memory, contralateral to the side of the hemispheric lesion (Neurology, 67: 1801, 2006, Neurocase 14: ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2014

Combining language and space: Sentence bisection in unilateral spatial neglect

Giuseppe Vallar

In line bisection right-brain-damaged patients with left spatial neglect show a rightward deviation, with respect to the line's physical center. In word bisection ortho-phonological features of the stimulus' final (right-sided) part modulate performance of ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014