Recognition without awareness in a patient with simultanagnosia

International Journal of Psychophysiology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-12

  Denburg, Natalie L ^a   Jones, Robert D ^a   Tranel, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Balint syndrome; Covert; Prosopagnosia; Simultanagnosia

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 61849087424     PISSN: 01678760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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