Split-brain patients neglect left personal space during right-handed gestures

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1317-1329

  Lausberg, Hedda ^a,b   Kita, Sotaro ^b   Zaidel, Eran ^c   Ptito, Alain ^d  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Callosal disconnection; Directional akinesia; Gesture space; Hemi spatial neglect; Hemispheric specialisation; Partial callosotomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS CALLOSUM TRANSSECTION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEMISPHERE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; MALE; NEGLECT; SPLIT BRAIN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 0038738017     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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