| Publication year: 2010
Source: Neuropsychologia, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 21 November 2010
Helen A., Anema , Krista E., Overvliet , Jeroen B.J., Smeets , Eli, Brenner , H. Chris, Dijkerman
Finger agnosia has been described as an inability to explicitly individuate between the fingers, which is possibly due to fused neural representations of these fingers. Hence, are patients with finger agnosia unable to keep tactile information perceived over several fingers separate? Here, we tested a finger agnosic patient (GO) on two tasks that measured the ability to keep tactile information simultaneously perceived by individual fingers separate. In experiment 1 GO performed a haptic search task, in which a target (the absence of a protruded line) needed to be identified among distracters (protruded lines). The lines were presented simultaneously to the... |
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