World unglued: Simultanagnosia as a spatial restriction of attention

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Dalrymple, Kirsten A ^a,b   Barton, Jason J S ^c   Kingstone, Alan ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

B lint syndrome; Object based attention; Simultanagnosia; Space based attention; Vision

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AWARENESS; BALINT SYNDROME; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERCEPTION; REVIEW; SIMULTANAGNOSIA; SYNDROME; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84933679305     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00145     Document Type: Review

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