Global perception in simultanagnosia is not as simple as a game of connect-the-dots

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1901-1908

  Dalrymple, Kirsten A ^a   Bischof, Walter F ^b   Cameron, David ^a   Barton, Jason J S ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Balint syndrome; Eye movements; Perception; Simultanagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIMULTAGNOSIA; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DEPRIVATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGNOSIA; ATTENTION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 67349095581     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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