A Patient with Difficulty of Object Recognition: Semantic Amnesia for Manipulable Objects

We studied a patient who had recognition difficulty for manipulable objects. MRI showed a lesion in the left occipito-parietotemporal area. Differential diagnosis of agnosia, aphasia and apraxia is discussed. We believe this “object meaning amnesia” constitutes a distinct subtype of semantic amnesia...

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Main Authors: A. Yamadori, Y. Yoneda, H. Yamashita, K. Sugiura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1992-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1992-5307
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