TY - JOUR
T1 - Spatial transpositions across tasks and response modalities
T2 - Exploring representational allochiria
AU - Lepore, Michele
AU - Conson, Massimiliano
AU - Ferrigno, Adriana
AU - Grossi, Dario
AU - Trojano, Luigi
PY - 2004/10
Y1 - 2004/10
N2 - We describe a neglect patient who showed systematic transpositions of left-sided items onto the right side in clock drawing. When the patient had to write single hours on blank clock dials he again showed allochiria, while he copied single spatial locations without transpositions. The patient also showed a variable number of spatial transpositions on imaginal tasks with well known and novel material acquired through visual modality and on controlled constructional tasks, independently from response modality (verbal, graphic or motor). From this basis, we argued that spatial transpositions may derive from an impairment of the mental representation of space. Moreover, we speculated that such errors may result from cognitive conflict between different sources of information.
AB - We describe a neglect patient who showed systematic transpositions of left-sided items onto the right side in clock drawing. When the patient had to write single hours on blank clock dials he again showed allochiria, while he copied single spatial locations without transpositions. The patient also showed a variable number of spatial transpositions on imaginal tasks with well known and novel material acquired through visual modality and on controlled constructional tasks, independently from response modality (verbal, graphic or motor). From this basis, we argued that spatial transpositions may derive from an impairment of the mental representation of space. Moreover, we speculated that such errors may result from cognitive conflict between different sources of information.
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U2 - 10.1080/13554790490892275
DO - 10.1080/13554790490892275
M3 - Article
C2 - 15788277
AN - SCOPUS:12144270979
VL - 10
SP - 386
EP - 392
JO - Neurocase
JF - Neurocase
SN - 1355-4794
IS - 5
ER -