title: Rotated drawing: the range of performance and anatomical correlates in a series of 16 patients.
abstract: Recently there has been interest in an unusual neuropsychological disorder in which the patient copies a complex drawing in a position which is grossly rotated relative to the original. This disorder is of interest partly because of its relationship to current theories of the process of object recognition, but the range of performances typically seen, as well as its anatomical correlates, remain obscure. We report 16 cases who produced grossly rotated drawings of the Rey and Taylor Complex Figures. These patients were drawn from an unselected series of 240 cases, with a wide variety of lesion types and sites. The performances of the 16 patients displayed striking similarities. We describe the formal features of these drawings and plot their anatomical correlates.
authors.affiliation: Academic Department of Neurosurgery, St. Bartholomew's, London, England.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Solms
authors.forename: O H
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Turnbull
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kaplan-Solms
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012399:Rotation; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*