Where are your body parts? A pure case of heterotopagnosia following left parietal stroke
Authors:
Laurent Auclair ab;
Marion Noulhiane a;
Patrick Raibaut b;
Gerard Amarenco b
| Affiliations: | a Laboratoire de Psychologie et de Neurosciences cognitives (CNRS UMR 8189), Universit Paris Descartes (Paris 5), Billancourt, France |
b Service de R![]() ducation Neurologique et Explorations P rin ales, H pital Rothschild (AP - HP), Paris, France |
DOI:
10.1080/13554790902911642
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6 issues per year
First Published:
December
2009
Subjects:
Clinical Neuropsychology;
Cognitive Neuropsychology;
Cognitive Psychology;
Neuropsychology;
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Abstract
We studied the involvement of the parietal cortex in interpersonal body representation in a left parietal stroke patient. We used tasks assessing different types of body representations and localization of object parts. The patient performed normally on all tasks of body knowledge. However, she was unable to locate body parts on another person or on body representations. In contrast, she pointed correctly to the same body parts on herself or object representations. The data support the important role of the left parietal cortex in the transformation of intrinsic spatial coding of body parts localization in extrinsic body part coordinates.
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| Keywords: Parietal lobe; Body representations; Body schema; Heterotopagnosia; Autotopagnosia |
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pital Rothschild (AP - HP), Paris, France
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