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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), Universiteacute Paris Descartes (Paris 5), Billancourt, France
b Service de Reacuteeacuteducation Neurologique et Explorations Peacuterineacuteales, Hocircpital Rothschild (AP - HP), Paris, France
DOI: 10.1080/13554790902911642
Publication Frequency: 6 issues per year
Published in: journal Neurocase, Volume 15, Issue 6 December 2009 , pages 459 - 465
First Published: December 2009
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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.
Keywords: Parietal lobe; Body representations; Body schema; Heterotopagnosia; Autotopagnosia
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