Beyond neglect: Preliminary evidence of retrospective time estimation abnormalities in non-neglect stroke and transient ischemic attack patients

Abstract

Perception of the passage of time is essential for safe planning and navigation of everyday activities. Findings from the literature have demonstrated a gross underestimation of time interval in righthemisphere damaged neglect patients, but not in non-neglect unilaterally-damaged patients, compared to controls. This study aimed to investigate retrospective estimation of the duration of a target detection task over two occasions, in 30 stroke patients (12 left-side stroke 15 right-side stroke, and 3 right-side stroke with neglect) and 10 transient ischemic attack patients, relative to 31 agematched controls. Performances on visual short-term and working memory tasks were also examined to inve..