Mentalizing the body: spatial and social cognition in anosognosia for hemiplegia.

ABSTRACT: Following right-hemisphere damage, a specific disorder of motor awareness can occur called anosognosia for hemiplegia, i.e. the denial of motor deficits contralateral to a brain lesion. The study of anosognosia can offer unique insights into the neurocognitive basis of awareness. Typically, however, awareness is assessed as a first person judgement and the ability of patients to think about their bodies in more 'objective' (third person) terms is not directly assessed. This may be important as right-hemisphere spatial abilities may underlie our ability to take third person perspectives. This possibility was assessed for the first time in the present study. We investigated third person perspective taking using both visuospatial and verbal tasks in right-hemisphere stroke patients with anoso

SUBMITTER: Besharati S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4766377 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature