Auditory agnosia and auditory spatial deficits following left hemispheric lesions: Evidence for distinct processing pathways

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 797-807

  Clarke, Stephanie ^a,b   Bellmann, Anne ^a,b   Meuli, Reto A ^a   Assal, Gil ^a   Steck, Andreas J ^c  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Neurologische Universitatsklinik Basel   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory agnosia; Auditory areas; Auditory localisation; Auditory motion; Human

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGNOSIA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MACACA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033972554     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00141-4     Document Type: Article

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