Intact automatic avoidance of obstacles in patients with visual form agnosia

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 176-188

  Rice, Nichola J ^a,f   McIntosh, Robert D ^b   Schindler, Igor ^c   Mon Williams, Mark ^d   Démonet, Jean François ^e   Milner, A David ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^e CHU PURPAN   (France)

^f DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FINGERS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748372295     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-006-0435-5     Document Type: Article

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