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Sunderland, Alan; Wilkins, Leigh; Dineen, Rob; Dawson, Sophie E. – Brain and Cognition, 2013
Impaired tool related action in ideomotor apraxia is normally ascribed to loss of sensorimotor memories for habitual actions (engrams), but this account has not been tested against a hypothesis of a general deficit in representation of hand-object spatial relationships. Rapid reaching for familiar tools was compared with reaching for abstract…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Patients, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Sensory Integration
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Schutz-Bosbach, Simone; Tausche, Peggy; Weiss, Carmen – Brain and Cognition, 2009
Watching a rubber hand being stroked by a paintbrush while feeling identical stroking of one's own occluded hand can create a compelling illusion that the seen hand becomes part of one's own body. It has been suggested that this so-called rubber hand illusion (RHI) does not simply reflect a bottom-up multisensory integration process but that the…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Stimulation, Multisensory Learning, Perception
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Chokron, Sylvie; Colliot, Pascale; Atzeni, Thierry; Bartolomeo, Paolo; Ohlmann, Theophile – Brain and Cognition, 2004
Eighty blindfolded healthy female subjects participated in an active and a passive straight-ahead pointing task to study the estimation of the subjective sagittal middle in the presence or absence of an active haptic exploration. Subjects were to point straight-ahead with their left or right index finger starting from different right- or…
Descriptors: Females, Spatial Ability, Motion, Task Analysis