Apraxia of tool use: More evidence for the technical reasoning hypothesis

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2322-2333

  Jarry, Christophe ^a,b   Osiurak, François ^c   Delafuys, David ^b   Chauviré, Valérie ^b   Etcharry Bouyx, Frédérique ^a,b   Le Gall, Didier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

^b ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Lyon University   (France)

Author keywords

Apraxia of tool use; Executive planning; Mechanical problem solving; Semantic memory; Technical reasoning

Indexed keywords

AGED; APHASIA; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL AND CATEGORICAL ASSOCIATIONS; HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PANTOMIME OF TOOL USE AND SINGLE TOOL USE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEQUENTIAL MECHANICAL PROBLEM SOLVING; TOOL OBJECT PAIRS AND SEQUENTIAL MECHANICAL PROBLEM; TOOL USE;

APRAXIA OF TOOL USE; EXECUTIVE PLANNING; MECHANICAL PROBLEM-SOLVING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; TECHNICAL REASONING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA; APRAXIAS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84884819246     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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