Congenital visual agnosia and prosopagnosia in a child: A case report

Cortex

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 221-240

  Ariel, Raya ^a,b   Sadeh, Michelle ^a  

^a Schneider Children Medical Center of Israel SCMCI   (Israel)

^b c/o Wechsler ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGERY; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; PROSOPAGNOSIA; READING; RECOGNITION; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WRITING;

EID: 0029899689     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(96)80048-7     Document Type: Article

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