Virtual reality applications for the remapping of space in neglect patients

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 4-6, 2006, Pages 431-441

  Ansuini, Caterina ^a   Pierno, Andrea Cristiano ^a   Lusher, Dean ^b   Castiello, Umberto ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reach to grasp; Rehabilitation; Space remapping; Virtual reality; Visual neglect

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAINING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNILATERAL SPATIAL NEGLECT; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33751100137     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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