Stroke is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Limb apraxia is a group of higher order
motor disorders associated with greater disability and dependence after stroke. Original …

Limb apraxia is a heterogeneous disorder of skilled action and tool use that has long
perplexed clinicians and researchers. It occurs after damage to various loci in a densely …

Attention control (or executive control) is a higher cognitive function involved in response
selection and inhibition, through close interactions with the motor system. Here, we tested …

Limb apraxia is a higher-order motor disorder often occurring post-stroke, which affects
skilled actions. It is assessed through tasks involving gesture production or pantomime …

This article reviews evidence for the special inhibitory mechanisms required to keep
response activation related to affordances of a non-target object from evoking responses …

Limb apraxia (LA) is a high-order motor disorder linked to left-hemisphere damage. It is
characterized by defective execution of purposeful actions upon delayed imitation, or verbal …

Since the first studies on limb apraxia carried out by Hugo Liepmann more than a century
ago, research interests focused on the way humans process manual gestures by assessing …

Limb apraxia (LA) refers to a high-order motor disorder characterized by the inability to
reproduce transitive actions on commands or after observation. Studies demonstrate that …

Recently, human behavior has been considered the product of continuous interactions
between perception, cognition and action in which “affordances”(action possibilities the …

Introduction Using tools effectively is a fundamental human ability. Besides the proper recall
of semantic knowledge, the application of mechanical problem solving strategies allows one …