The authors model the neural mechanisms underlying spatial cognition, integrating
neuronal systems and behavioral data, and address the relationships between long-term …

Current views of the parietal cortex have difficulty accommodating the human inferior
parietal lobe (IPL) within a simple dorsal versus ventral stream dichotomy. In humans …

Background Patients with brain lesions provide a unique opportunity to understand the
functioning of the human mind. However, even when focal, brain lesions have local and …

Brain lesions do not just disable but also disconnect brain areas, which once deprived of
their input or output, can no longer subserve behaviour and cognition. The role of white …

Spatial neglect is a perplexing neuropsychological syndrome, in which patients fail to detect
(and/or respond to) stimuli located contralaterally to their (most often right) hemispheric …

Unilateral spatial neglect is a disabling neurological condition that typically results from right
hemisphere damage. Neglect patients are unable to take into account information coming …

The exact anatomical localization of right hemisphere lesions that lead to left spatial neglect
is still debated. The effect of confounding factors such as acute diaschisis and …

Diffusion-based tractography enables the graphical reconstruction of the white matter
pathways in the brain and spinal cord of living humans. This technique has many potential …

Chronic visual neglect prevents brain-damaged patients from returning to an independent
and active life. Detecting predictors of persistent neglect as early as possible after the stroke …

Seminal case reports collected during the middle part of the XX century, designated the
parietal lobe as the principal area of damage in patients suffering from contralesional spatial …