Zhao Zhiran Luisa, Pike Emma Louise, Deouell Leon Y, Lin Chin-Hsuan Sophie, Garrido Marta I
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Department of Psychology, Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jul 1;15(1):21593. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-04590-4.
Pseudoneglect, considered the archetype of spatial attentional asymmetries among neurologically healthy individuals, is traditionally described as a consistent leftward error in visuo-spatial tasks. Here we challenge this notion by revealing a consistent rightward "internal" bias in a task where participants' representational encoding of visuo-spatial information is captured. Our meta-analysis across seven experiments in 1750 neurotypical individuals robustly demonstrates a rightward internal bias in the expectations of objects in space. Moreover, we show that this bias is malleable, with a simple behavioural intervention that manipulates prior expectations, albeit with limited generalisability. By successfully recalibrating a spatial bias, our research highlights the potential for cognitive adjustments in addressing spatial cognition challenges such as those in unilateral spatial neglect after stroke.
假性忽视被认为是神经健康个体空间注意力不对称的典型表现,传统上被描述为在视觉空间任务中持续出现的向左错误。在此,我们通过在一项捕捉参与者视觉空间信息表征编码的任务中揭示一致的向右“内部”偏差,对这一概念提出了挑战。我们对1750名神经正常个体的七个实验进行的荟萃分析有力地证明了在空间物体预期方面存在向右的内部偏差。此外,我们表明这种偏差是可塑的,通过一种简单的行为干预来操纵先前的预期,尽管其普遍性有限。通过成功地重新校准空间偏差,我们的研究突出了认知调整在应对空间认知挑战(如中风后单侧空间忽视中的挑战)方面的潜力。
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