Tool use and action planning in apraxia

▸ Patients with apraxia often failed to invert the hand to grasp inverted tools. ▸ Ability to invert the hand to grasp abstract objects was largely unimpaired. ▸ For correct responses, rotation of the wrist was later during reaching for tools. ▸ These data suggest degraded access to tool-use represe...

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Published in:	Neuropsychologia Vol. 49; no. 5; pp. 1275 - 1286
Main Authors:	Sunderland, Alan, Wilkins, Leigh, Dineen, Rob
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Kidlington Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2011 Elsevier
Subjects:	Action planning Adult Adult and adolescent clinical studies Aged Apraxia Apraxias - pathology Apraxias - physiopathology Biological and medical sciences Cues Disorders of higher nervous function. Focal brain diseases. Central vestibular syndrome and deafness. Brain stem syndromes Female Gestures Hand - physiopathology Humans Imitative Behavior - physiology Language Left inferior parietal lobe Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods Male Medical sciences Memory for actions Middle Aged Motor Skills - physiology Movement - physiology Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Neurology Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology Problem Solving - physiology Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Reaction Time - physiology Space Perception Statistics as Topic Tool-use Wrist - innervation Apraxia Tool-use Memory for actions Action planning Left inferior parietal lobe Human Nervous system diseases Memory Central nervous system Encephalon Cerebral disorder Central nervous system disease Body movement Parietal lobe Planning Neurological disorder Motricity Tool
ISSN:	0028-3932, 1873-3514, 1873-3514
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