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Duration and numerical estimation in right brain-damaged patients with and without neglect: Lack of support for a mental time line

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Masson, Nicolas [UCL] Pesenti, Mauro [UCL] Dormal, Valérie [UCL]

Previous studies have shown that left neglect patients are impaired when they have to orient their attention leftward relative to a standard in numerical comparison tasks. This finding has been accounted for by the idea that numerical magnitudes are represented along a spatial continuum oriented from left to right with small magnitudes on the left and large magnitudes on the right. Similarly, it has been proposed that duration could be represented along a mental time line that shares the properties of the number continuum. By comparing directly duration and numerosity processing, this study investigates whether or not the performance of neglect patients supports the hypothesis of a mental time line. Twenty-two right brain-damaged patients (11 with and 11 without left neglect), as well as 11 age-matched healthy controls, had to judge whether a single dot presented visually lasted shorter or longer than 500 ms and whether a sequence of flashed dots was smaller or larger than 5. Digit spans were also assessed to measure verbal working memory capacities. In duration comparison, no spatial-duration bias was found in neglect patients. Moreover, a significant correlation between verbal working memory and duration performance was observed in right brain-damaged patients, irrespective of the presence or absence of neglect. In numerical comparison, only neglect patients showed an enhanced distance effect for numerical magnitude smaller than the standard. These results do not support the hypothesis of the existence of a mental continuum oriented from left to right for duration. We discuss an alternative account to explain the duration impairment observed in right brain-damaged patients.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès mixte
Publication date 2016
Language Anglais
Journal information "British Journal of Psychology" - Vol. 107, no. 3, p. 467-483 (August 2016)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher JohnWiley & Sons Ltd. ((United Kingdom) Oxford)
issn 0007-1269
e-issn 2044-8295
Publication status Publié
Affiliations UCL - SSS/IONS - Institute of NeuroScience
UCL - SSH/IPSY - Psychological Sciences Research Institute
UCL - SSS/IONS/COSY - Systems & cognitive Neuroscience
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Bibliographic reference Masson, Nicolas ; Pesenti, Mauro ; Dormal, Valérie. Duration and numerical estimation in right brain-damaged patients with and without neglect: Lack of support for a mental time line. In: British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 107, no. 3, p. 467-483 (August 2016)
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