Showing papers by "Anna Berti published in 2007"
TL;DR: The data show that dissociations between far and near space neglect are a frequent observation in right brain damaged patients and that most of these patients are able to recode space representations when tools change the spatial relation between the agent's body and the target object.
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TL;DR: The authors review the drawing disorders that can be observed in patients with brain damage, the impact of brain damage on the output of professional artists, and the distortions of body image that characterise the work of many great artists.
Abstract: The authors review the drawing disorders that can be observed in patients with brain damage (in particular, those with constructional apraxia and unilateral spatial neglect), the impact of brain damage on the output of professional artists, and the distortions of body image that characterise the work of many great artists, from Rubens to Lucien Freud These different perspectives share the basic assumption that the graphic and artistic output of patients, normal subjects, and exceptionally gifted individuals may represent a window onto the neural organisation of body image
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