Visual agnosia for line drawings and silhouettes without apparent impairment of real-object recognition: A case report

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 187-192

  Hiraoka, Kotaro ^a   Suzuki, Kyoko ^a,b   Hirayama, Kazumi ^a   Mori, Etsuro ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Line drawings; Photographs; Posterior cerebral artery; Real objects; Silhouettes; Visual agnosia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; DRAWING; FEMALE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VISUAL AGNOSIA;

AGED; AGNOSIA; ART; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 72949090553     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2009-0244     Document Type: Article

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