Agnosia for global patterns: When the cross-talk between grouping and visual selective attention fails

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-25

  Piccini, Carolina ^a   Lauro Grotto, Rosapia ^a   Del Viva, Maria Michela ^a   Burr, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 0037295350     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290244000167     Document Type: Review

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