title: Separate visual pathways for perception of actions and objects: evidence from a case of apperceptive agnosia.
abstract: Recognition of different kinds of visual stimuli was studied in a patient who acquired apperceptive visual agnosia after a bilateral occipitotemporal lesion which partially spared the primary visual cortex. Impairment in recognising static objects perceived visually sharply contrasts with the relatively well preserved ability to recognise objects from gestures illustrating their use, and to recognise actions shown in line drawings. It is suggested that the occipitoparieto-frontal pathway is involved in the recognition of actions, and in the recognition of objects when sensorimotor experience is evoked.
authors.affiliation: Upres EA 2200 CJF, Inserm 9706, Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, France.
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Ferreira
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ceccaldi
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Giusiano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Poncet
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000377:Agnosia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002543:Cerebral Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology*; D005556:Form Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*