Fig. 12. Neglect alexia. The eye movements (black lines) and the fixations (dots) during paragraph reading are shown in a patient with left hemineglect. This patient failed to read words on the left side of a block of text (Behrmann, Black, and Barton, unpublished data). Such a problem is most often caused by a right parietal lobe lesion. The failure to attend to stimuli on the left is generally not restricted to reading or even to vision.