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- noun A mild
asymmetry inspatial attention, displayed by neurologically normal individuals, in which the left side of space tends to be favoured, making leftward errors in line bisections as well as in the judgment of brightness, numerosity, and size quite common.
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Researchers now report that pseudoneglect is not restricted to humans but is shared by birds, suggesting not only that brain structures thought to play a requisite role in pseudoneglect may not actually be essential for this phenomenon, but also that pseudoneglect may reflect evolutionary adaptations that allow animals to devote attention to multiple aspects of their environment.
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This bias operates in the opposite direction to clinical neglect, and for this reason, it is often called 'pseudoneglect'
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Michael E. R. Nicholls et al. 2010
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During some tasks humans have a tendency to devote more visual attention to the left side than the right, a phenomenon known as pseudoneglect.
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