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Apraxia : the cognitive side of motor control / Georg Goldenberg

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Goldenberg, Georg
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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.
Summary
Apraxia is a symptom of cerebral lesions that has puzzled clinicians and researchers for some 100 years. This book presents a comprehensive account of clinical and experimental findings on all manifestations of apraxia as well as of the history and the philosophical underpinning of theories on apraxia.
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ISBN
9780191756344 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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