ABSTRACT
Reading and writing are among the functions commonly affected in unilateral neglect. A patient with left-side neglect following a right parietal lesion will tend to omit the initial words of lines of text, and will make errors on single words which affect the initial letters, for example misreading WINE as “mine” or MESSAGE as “passage”. With the exception of Kinsbourne and Warrington (1962), the only treatments of the impact of neglect on reading one can find before the mid-1980s are embedded in more general accounts of the “neglect syndrome” (e.g. Assal & Zander, 1969; Diller & Weinberg, 1977; Friedland & Weinstein, 1977; Gilliat & Pratt, 1952).
