Visual Attention

Attention deficits may be limited to one half of the visual field, often at the side of hemiplegia. In an infant this may look like hemianopia. However, if the infant is regularly stimulated on this functionally blind side some visual function may appear and at the age of two years there may be no measurable difference in the function of the two field halves. In that case there might never have been hemianopia but poor attention to visual information.