Progressive impairment of constructional abilities: A visuospatial sketchpad deficit?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1858-1867

  Papagno, Costanza ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Constructional apraxia; Imagery; Perceptual abilities; Visuospatial sketchpad

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGERY; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARIETAL LOBE; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

APHASIA; APRAXIAS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0036384104     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00072-6     Document Type: Article

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