Apraxia : the cognitive side of motor control /

Apraxia is a symptom of cerebral lesions that has puzzled clinicians and researchers for some 100 years. It has engendered many fascinating descriptions and a wide diversity of conflicting theoretical accounts. This book is the first one that gives a comprehensive account of clinical and experimenta...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldenberg, Georg (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Apraxia.
Motor ability.
Cognition disorders.
Apraxias
Motor Activity
Motor Skills
Cognition Disorders
Activité motrice.
Troubles de la cognition.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Hearing & Speech.
MEDICAL > Audiology & Speech Pathology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1 Apraxia before Liepmann: Mind-palsy, asymbolia, and apraxia
  • 2 Hugo Karl Liepmann
  • 3 The decline of diagrams
  • 4 Return of the ostracized
  • 5 High and low levels of action control
  • 6 Imitation: A direct route from vision to action?
  • 7 Body part specificity
  • 8 Use of single tools
  • 9 Naturalistic action
  • 10 Communicative gestures: Pantomime of tool use
  • 11 Communicating with gestures
  • 12 Apraxia in left-handers
  • 13 Approaching apraxia from the motor side
  • 14 Callosal apraxia and intermanual conflict
  • 15 The cognitive side of motor control
  • 16 Levels of therapy
  • References
  • Subject Index
  • Author Index
  • Footnotes.

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