Hemispheric specialisation for imitation of hand-head positions and finger configurations: A controlled study in patients with complete callosotomy

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 320-334

  Lausberg, Hedda ^a,b   Cruz, Robyn Flaum ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Apraxia; Hand postures; Intransitive gestures; Meaningless gestures; Partial callosotomy; Split brain patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SURGERY; COMPENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISSOCIATION; EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND; HEAD POSITION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPLIT BRAIN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACHISTOSCOPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

EID: 0345118895     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.08.003     Document Type: Article

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