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Citations number
90
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology,Neurology
Journal title
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
This article addresses the confusion in neuropsychological literature on vi
suospatial function and then proposes an analytic framework towards resolut
ion in the visuospatial domain. Three bodies of literature on visuospatial
processing are summarized, and from each is derived an analytic dimension f
or visuospatial investigation. They are: (1) the frame of space (e.g., egoc
entric), (2) the definition of spatial operations in cognitive terms, and (
3) spatial processing in terms of neural hierarchy and respective neural ce
nters. It is proposed that these dimensions can constitute a working model
to clarify the complexity of visuospatial function.