Trial reportNeurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology2020
The Visual Scanning Test: a newly developed neuropsychological tool to assess and target rehabilitation of extrapersonal visual unilateral spatial neglect.
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The Visual Scanning Test: a Neuropsychological Tool to Assess Extrapersonal Visual Unilateral Spatial Neglect
Who cites it
5 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Signs and symptoms in spatial neglect syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2026Pooled it
- Computer-based assessment of unilateral spatial neglect: A systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Unilateral Spatial Neglect After Stroke: A Pragmatic Approach to Assessment and Rehabilitation.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- Using Virtual Reality to Complement Paper-and-Pencil Tests to Assess Visual Unilateral Spatial Neglect: A Feasibility Study.Behavioural neurology · 2026Article
- A single-blind randomized trial on the efficacy of telerehabilitation in post-stroke cognitive impairment. CIPS-TER study: rationale, design and methodology.Frontiers in stroke · 2025Article
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Abstract
purposeVisual unilateral spatial neglect (VUSN) is a neuropsychological condition commonly experienced after stroke whereby patients are unable to attend to stimuli on the controlesional side of their space. VUSN can occur in the personal, peripersonal, and/or extrapersonal portion of patient's space. Traditional paper-and-pencil neuropsychological tests are widely used to evaluate VUSN, but they assess peripersonal VUSN. Instead, personal and extrapersonal neglect are less easily evaluated. The aim of this study was to present normative values for the Visual Scanning Test (VST), a new neuropsychological tool to quantitatively assess the extrapersonal VUSN.
methodsEighty-six healthy subjects took part in the study (61 female), with a mean age of 52.8 years (SD = 17.0) and a mean of 14.0 years of education (SD = 5.2). The VST involved a visual search for a target between similar visual distractors, projected in the far space. The test was administered twice to each participant, with an interval of 2 weeks. From the recorded data, it was possible to obtain indexes related to the reaction times and to the accuracy of the performance on the VST.
resultsMultiple linear regression analysis revealed that age and education significantly influenced VST-derived indexes. From the regression analysis, a correction grid for raw scores was built. Adjusted scores were then ranked, and by means of a non-parametric procedure, tolerance limits (both outer and inner one-sided) were defined.
conclusionsThe present study provided normative data for the VST in an Italian population useful for both clinical and research purposes.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT03931798.
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