Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: “The ipsilesional attention bias in right-hemisphere stroke patients as revealed by a realistic visual search task: Neuroanatomical correlates and functional relevance”: Correction to Machner et al. (2018).

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Reports an error in "The ipsilesional attention bias in right-hemisphere stroke patients as revealed by a realistic visual search task: Neuroanatomical correlates and functional relevance" by Björn Machner, Inga Könemund, Janina von der Gablentz, Paul M. Bays and Andreas Sprenger (Neuropsychology, 2018[Oct], Vol 32[7], 850-865). In the article, The copyright attribution was incorrectly listed and the Creative Commons CC-BY license disclaimer was incorrectly omitted from the author note. The correct copyright is "© 2018 The Author(s)" and the omitted disclaimer is below. The online version of this article has been corrected. "This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Copyright for this article is retained by the author(s). Author(s) grant(s) the American Psychological Association the exclusive right to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher." (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2018-51197-002.) Objective: Right-hemisphere stroke may cause an ipsilesional attention bias and left hemispatial neglect. Computerized time-limited tasks are more sensitive than conventional paperâ€"pencil tests in detecting these spatial attention deficits. However, their frequency in the acute stage of stroke, the neuroanatomical basis and functional relevance for patients' everyday life are unclear. Method: A realistic visual search task is introduced, in which eye movements are recorded while the patient searches for paperclips among different everyday objects on a computer display. The "desk task" performance of 34 acute right-hemisphere stroke patients was compared to established paperâ€"pencil tests for neglect and the Posner reaction time task, and finally correlated to structural brain lesions. Results: Most of the patients, even those without clinical neglect signs and with normal paperâ€"pencil test performance, exhibited a clear ipsilesional attention bias in the desk task. This bias was highly correlated to the left-right asymmetry in the Posner task and to neglect-related functional impairment scores. Lesion-symptom mapping revealed task-specific differences: deficits in the desk task were associated with lesions of the superior temporal gyrus, contralesional unawareness in the Posner task with ventral frontal cortex lesions and paperâ€"pencil cancellation bias with damage to the inferior parietal lobe. Neglect behavior was further associated with distinct frontoparietal white matter tract disconnections (inferior longitudinal fasciculus, superior longitudinal fasciculus, arcuate). Conclusions: Results from the novel desk task indicate a functional relevance of spatial attention deficits in right-hemisphere stroke patients, even if they are "subclinical." This should be considered especially in patients without obvious clinical neglect signs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)