Your text describes imagery performance of a patient with unilateral neglect. This patient was asked to imagine himself standing at one end of a familiar plaza and to report the objects he saw. His behavior shows
A. neglect manifests itself in perception only, not in imagery.
B. neglect occurred in imagery such that some objects in the plaza were never reported.
C. neglect involved both the left and right sides of the visual field, with an apparently "random" agnosia of different components of the fields.
D. neglect always occurred on the left side of the image, with "left side" being determined by the direction in which the patient imagined he was positioned.
Answer: D
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