Spatial neglect is a disorder of space-related behaviour. It is characterized by failure to explore the side of space contralateral to a brain lesion, or to react or respond to stimuli or subjects located on this side. Research on spatial neglect and related disorders has developed rapidly in recent years. These advances have been made as a result of neuropsychological studies of patients with brain damage, behavioural studies of animal models, as well as through functional neurophysiological experiments and functional neuroimaging.

Comparative Neuropsychology is a collection of state-of-the-art essays by some of the world's leading neuropsychologists. Taking as their st arting point the assumption that the human brain shares many of its mo st important functional systems with its primate relatives, the author s take a comparative evolutionary approach to understanding human cogn ition and brain function.