Visual exploration of dynamic real-world scenes in patients with hemispatial neglect

Visual exploration of everyday scenes requires shifts of attention performed by the use of saccadic eye movements. We do know that patients with hemispatial neglect show profound deficits in the exploration of static scenes and in visual search paradigms using abstract stimuli. However, little is known about their scanning behaviour in dynamic scenes, in particular when the moving real-world stimuli are presented in a visual search context. Given that visual attention is largely driven by the salience of visual targets and that motion is one of the strongest (most salient) cues, we wondered whether neglect patie…