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Based on ten experiments, this thesis examines representational neglect in brain damaged patients and in matched controls.  The patients sometimes show a specific deficit in visual imaging:  neglected one half of their mental representations.  Although several studies addressed the issue of visuo-perceptual neglect, the representational defect is underinvestigated.  Only a few standardized tests are available for its detention and assessment, and therefore rarely it is diagnosed in clinical practise or investigated in experimental work.  In this thesis some new tests to investigate representational neglect are proposed.  Moreover, representational neglect is evaluated in different sensory modalities (visual, tactile as well as within the personal domain) to address the issue of supramodality or plurimodality of this deficit.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-80).

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-72).

The pediatric version of the Family Needs Questionnaire was administered to parents of children with traumatic brain injuries (TBI, n = 19) a year or more post-injury. Parents of diabetic children (DIAB group, n = 21) and parents of orthopedically injured children (ORTHO group, n = 14) were included as control groups. Parents rated 40 items in terms of their importance and how well these needs have been met. The ORTHO group rated significantly fewer items as important relative to the TBI and DIAB groups (who endorsed a similar number of items). Of those items rated as important, TBI parents' needs were more likely to remain unmet relative to both the DIAB and the ORTHO groups; out of 28 items rated as important, TBI parents report that 19 needs are still unmet. Within the TBI group even for those needs reported as met most items were endorsed by fewer than half of the parents, indicating that a large proportion of the TBI parents still felt those needs were unmet. DIAB and ORTHO parents more consistently reported their needs as met both across items and within groups. Needs most often rated as unmet for TBI parents include the needs for health/medical information, professional support, community support networks, and the need to be involved in their child's care. These results present important findings for TBI rehabilitation professionals. Future studies need to investigate whether TBI parents' needs are unmet because there are no community resources or if the resources available are unused, or not targeting the needs TBI parents feel are most important. / Graduate

The purpose of this study was to explore the possibility of discriminating between three groups of children ("normal," "mildly braindamaged," and "severely brain-damaged") by evaluating their respective abilities to compare the size, shape, and texture of certain objects by means of tactile perception. To this end seven subtasks were devised to measure the haptic perception of these qualities separately and in combination. Two of the subtasks included visual perception as well in a cross modal situation. Twenty-one subjects were used in a pilot study which resulted in minor changes being made to the subtasks. In the experimental study twelve subjects of both sexes between the ages of seven and ten years formed each of the three groups. Analysis of the results of the study showed significant differences (at the .05 level) between normal and severely brain-damaged subjects for two subtasks. No differences between minimally brain-damaged and severely brain-damaged subjects were shown for any of the subtasks at the .05 level of significance, and no difference was shown between normal and minimally brain-damaged subjects at this level of significance. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Queensland, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1969. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.