Simultanagnosia: A defect of sustained attention yields insights on visual information processing

Neurology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 447-455

  Rizzo, Matthew ^a   Robin, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COGNITION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SIMULTANAGNOSIA; STROKE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; AGNOSIA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION DISORDERS; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0025230738     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.40.3_part_1.447     Document Type: Article

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