Insights into the neural mechanisms underlying hand praxis: implications for the neurocognitive rehabilitation of apraxia

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Jorge Oliveira et al. Front Psychol. 2014.

. 2014 Dec 9:5:1380.

doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01380. eCollection 2014.

¹ COPELABS, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Lisbon, Portugal.

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Keywords: apraxia; cerebral dominance; cognitive rehabilitation; intransitive gestures; praxis; priming; transitive gestures.

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The effects of visual half-field priming on the categorization of familiar intransitive gestures, tool use pantomimes, and meaningless hand movements.
Helon H, Króliczak G. Helon H, et al. Front Psychol. 2014 May 27;5:454. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00454. eCollection 2014. Front Psychol. 2014. PMID: 24904470 Free PMC article.

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