Attention and emotion in anosognosia: Evidence of implicit awareness and repression?

Neurocase

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 438-445

  Nardone, Ilaria B ^a   Ward, Robert ^a   Fotopoulou, Aikaterini ^a   Turnbull, Oliver ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anosognosia; Attention; Emotion; Implicit awareness; Repression

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOSOGNOSIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RESPONSE TIME; SELF EVALUATION; WORD RECOGNITION; ADULT; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; DENIAL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRUM; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRESSION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149116004     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790701881749     Document Type: Article

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