Anosognosia as motivated unawareness: The 'defence' hypothesis revisited

Cortex

Volumn 61, Issue , 2014, Pages 18-29

  Turnbull, Oliver H ^a   Fotopoulou, Aikaterini ^b   Solms, Mark ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anosognosia; Defence; Egocentric spatial cognition; Emotion; Hemiplegia; Motivation

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; AWARENESS; COGNITION; EMOTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGNOSIA; AWARENESS; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; MOTIVATION;

EID: 84914162893     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.10.008     Document Type: Review

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