Associative visual agnosia resulting from a disconnection between intact visual memory and semantic systems

Cortex

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 563-576

  Carlesimo, Giovanni A ^a   Casadio, Paola ^a   Sabbadini, Maurizio ^a   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FACE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0031774651     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70514-8     Document Type: Article

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