Opening a window on attention: Documenting and simulating recovery from simultanagnosia

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 787-799

  Dalrymple, Kirsten A ^a   Birmingham, Elina ^b   Bischof, Walter F ^c   Barton, Jason J S ^a   Kingstone, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Parietal damage; Simultanagnosia; Social scene perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SIMULATION; SIMULTANAGNOSIA; STIMULUS; VISUAL DISORDER;

AGNOSIA; ATTENTION; BRAIN INJURIES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79956135814     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.07.005     Document Type: Article

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