title: Drawing with oblique coordinates: on a single case.
abstract: We describe a patient with right hemisphere damage affected by mild left visuo-spatial neglect and constructional apraxia. During the rehabilitation, he failed to draw a draught-board using horizontal and vertical trajectories, but he performed it successfully using oblique trajectories. These observations suggested an impairment of vertical/horizontal spatial coordinates system. In copying tasks including figure elements in different orientations he drew more accurately components in oblique orientation, whereas failed to reproduce components in horizontal orientation. The patient performed visuospatial perceptual and perceptual-imaginative tasks successfully. From these findings, it is possible to suggest that the oblique coordinate system of reference operates independently of vertical and horizontal coordinate systems in building a complex figure and that, therefore, cardinal orientation do not constitute a reference norm to define oblique orientation, as previously suggested.
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychology Lab., Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy.
authors.forename: Dario
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Grossi
authors.forename: Gabriella
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Santangelo
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Carbone
authors.forename: Flavia
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: Valentina Gerarda
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Angelillo
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Trojano
mesh_terms: D001072:Apraxias / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology