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In order to explore parietal patients' difficulties in the processing of orientation information, we asked parietal patients (N = 8) and healthy and brain-damaged controls to imitate multicomponent actions where object orientation was one component. In Experiment 1 orientation was not the most relevant aspect of the action to be imitated, and the parietal group showed significant difficulties in processing object orientation. However, in Experiment 2, where orientation was placed at the top end of the goal hierarchy, the parietal group were able to process stimulus orientation sufficiently to place it within the goal hierarchy of the action and to reproduce it accurately. We conclude that patients with parietal lesions might be able to include object orientation in a goal hierarchy, but if their processing of orientation information is impaired they might be disproportionately prone to errors when object orientation is lower in the goal hierarchy and so not prioritized for processing resources.

Original publication

DOI

10.1080/02643290701862274

Type

Journal article

Journal

Cogn Neuropsychol

Publication Date

10/2008

Volume

25

Pages

1011 - 1026

Keywords

Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Brain Injuries, Confidence Intervals, Female, Frontal Lobe, Functional Laterality, Goals, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Imitative Behavior, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine, Male, Middle Aged, Movement, Neuropsychological Tests, Orientation, Parietal Lobe, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Space Perception