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Object Recognition and Spatial Processing Disorders. Tachistoscopic Studies in Healthy People

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Papers are listed dealing with pattern recognition and spatial processing disorders in brain-damaged patients and divided field studies in healthy people in order to ascertain functional hemisphere asymmetries.
Most important papers are marked with an asterisk.

Areas:

Recognition Disorders of Visual and Auditory Items

Spatial Processing Disorders

Tachistoscopic Studies

Recognition Disorders of Visual and Auditory Items

Spatial Processing Disorders

Spinnler H, Vignolo LA (1966) Impaired recognition of meaningful sounds in aphasia. Cortex 2: 337-348 *

De Renzi E, Spinnler H (1966) Visual recognition in patients with unilateral cerebral disease. Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 142: 515-525

Faglioni P, Spinnler H, Vignolo LA (1969) Contrasting behaviour of right and left hemisphere-damaged patients on a discriminative and semantic task of auditory recognition. Cortex 5: 366-389
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Faglioni P, Spinnler H (1969) Immediate and delayed recognition of nonsense figures in patients with unilateral hemisphere damage. Journal of Learning Disabilities 2: 652-658

Faglioni P, Scotti G, Spinnler H (1969) Impaired recognition of written letters following unilateral hemisphere damage. Cortex 5: 120-133

De Renzi E, Scotti G, Spinnler H (1969) Perceptual and associative disorders of visual recognition. Neurology 19: 634-642
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Bisiach E, Capitani E, Spinnler H (1975) Focal hemisphere damage and visuo-perceptual categorisation. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 38: 115-1120

Nichelli P, Spinnler H, Bisiach E (1976) Hemispheric functional asymmetry in visual discrimination between univariate stimuli: An analysis of sensitivity and response criterion. Neuropsychologia 14: 335-342
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Bisiach E, Capitani E, Nichelli P, Spinnler H (1976) Recognition of overlapping patterns and focal hemisphere-damage. Neuropsychologia 14: 375-379

Basso A, Capitani E, Faglioni P, Spinnler H (1976) Recognition of letters in left hemisphere lesions. Archives Suisses de Neurologie, Neurochirurgie et Psychiatrie 118: 193-198

Dalla Pria M, Spinnler H, Vallar G (1979) Pure word deafness and bilateral posterior perisylvian softenings: Report of a case with neuropsychological-CAT correlation. Archives Suisses de Neurologie, Neurochirurgie et Psychiatrie 125: 47-58

Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1988) Anton’s (Redlich-Babinski’s) syndrome associated with Dide-Botcazo’s syndrome: A case report of denial of cortical blindness and amnesia. Archives Suisses de Neurologie, Neurochirurgie et Psychiatrie 139: 5-15

Spinnler H, Della Sala S (1989) Riconoscimento visivo e memoria semantica (agnosie visive ed amnesie semantiche. Europa Medicophysica 25: 77-105

Della Sala S, Laiacona M, Spinnler H, Trivelli C (1995) Poppelreuter-Ghent’s Overlapping Figures Test: Its sensitivity on age and its clinical use. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 6: 511-534
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Ceriani F, Gentileschi V, Muggia S, Spinnler H (1998) Seeing objects smaller than they are: Micropsia following a right temporo-parietal infarct. Cortex 34: 131-138
 
Faglioni P, Spinnler H (1972) Visual perception versus memory of abstract spatial patterns and unilateral brain-damage. International Journal of Mental Health 3: 65-77

Faglioni P, Scotti G, Spinnler H (1971) The performance of brain-damaged patients in spatial location of visual and tactile stimuli. Brain 94: 443-454
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Bisiach E, Capitani E, Colombo A, Spinnler H (1976 ) Halving a horizontal segment: A study on hemisphere-damaged patients with cerebral focal lesions. Archives Suisses de Neurologie, Neurochirurgie et Psychiatrie 118: 199-206

Capitani E, Pagani C, Spinnler H (1979) Direction of spatial error in copying of visual stimuli: The relevance of focal brain-damage. Archives Suisses de Neurologie, Neurochirurgie et Psychiatrie 124: 11-21

Della Sala S, Di Lorenzo G, Giordano A, Spinnler H (1986) Is there a specific visuo-spatial impairment in Parkinsonians? Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 49: 1258-1265

Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1987) Visuo-spatial impairment in Parkinson disease: Does it exist? Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 50: 1560-1561

Della Sala S, Spinnler H, Trivelli C (1996) Slowly progressive impairment of spatial and visual perception. Neurocase 2: 299-323
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Tachistoscopic Studies

Bevilacqua L, Capitani E, Luzzatti C, Spinnler H (1979) Does the hemisphere stimulated play a specific role in delayed recognition of complex abstract pasterns? A tachistoscopic study. Neuropsychologia 17: 93-97 *

Spinnler H, Sterzi R, Tobaldini L, Vallar G (1982) Dissociation between normal hemispheres in delayed recognition of verbal and spatial cues of the same visual pattern. Behavioural Brain Research 6: 227-236
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Berrini R, Della Sala S, Spinnler H, Sterzi R, Vallar G (1982) In eliciting hemisphere asymmetries what is more important: The stimulus input side or the recognition side. A tachistoscopic study on normals. Neuropsychologia 20: 91-94
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Spinnler H, Sterzi R, Vallar G (1984) Selective visual interference with right hemisphere performance in verbal recall: A divided field study. Neuropsychologia 22: 353-361
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Berrini R, Capitani E, Della Sala S, Spinnler H (1984) Interaction between lateralisation of memory and probe stimulus in the recognition of verbal and spatial visual stimuli. Neuropsychologia 22: 517-520
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Updated to July 2011