Visual perception without awareness in a patient with posterior cortical atrophy: Impaired explicit but not implicit processing of global information

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 461-472

  Filoteo, J Vincent ^a,b   Friedrich, Frances J ^c   Rabbel, Catherine ^c   Stricker, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Balint's syndrome; Consciousness; Global local processing; Posterior cortical atrophy; Simultanagnosia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AWARENESS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATROPHY; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0036219571     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135561770281325X     Document Type: Article

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