It does not seem right to me that the word ‘neglect’ should be used to describe it. I think they thought I was definitely, deliberately not looking to the left. I wasn’t really … If it is not there, you are not neglecting it. 37 Just let that sink in for a second. What this patient is insisting on is extraordinary. At least for the left hemisphere, attention constitutes the world in a very literal sense: as far as your left hemisphere is concerned, what it no longer attends to is not just unseen, but ceases to exist.
