Coding space within but not between objects: evidence from Balint's syndrome.

Journal article

The ability to make spatial judgements was examined in a patient demonstrating poor perception of multiple objects following bilateral parietal lesions, under conditions in which the presence of the stimuli to which judgements were made could be detected. The tasks required judgements of spatial length or the position of coloured parts of stimuli. We manipulated the degree to which two uprights in a display could be encoded into a single perceptual object using either stored knowledge or bott...

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Authors: Cooper, A; Humphreys, G

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neuropsychologia
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 723-733
• Publication date: 2000-01-01
• DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3932(99)00150-5
• EISSN: 1873-3514
• ISSN: 0028-3932
• Language: English
• Keywords: Cues; Agnosia; Humans; Space Perception; Cerebral Cortex; Judgment; Visual Perception; Male; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Neuropsychological Tests; Middle Aged; Syndrome