Multiple-domain dissociation between impaired visual perception and preserved mental imagery in a patient with bilateral extrastriate lesions

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 239-249

  Bartolomeo, Paolo ^a,b   Bachoud Lévi, Anne Catherine ^b,c   De Gelder, Beatrice ^d,e   Denes, Gianfranco ^f   Barba, Gianfranco Dalla ^a,b   Brugières, Pierre ^b   Degos, Jean Denis ^a  

^a CENTRE PAUL BROCA   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Achromatopsia; Agnosia; Prosopagnosia; Pure alexia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ALEXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; COLOR; COLOR BLINDNESS; DISSOCIATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PROSOPAGNOSIA; READING; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGED; AGNOSIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA, ACQUIRED; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032032677     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00103-6     Document Type: Article

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