The enigma of Balint's syndrome: complexity of neural substrates and cognitive deficits

• Main Author: Magdalena Chechlacz (auth)
• Other Authors: Glyn Humphreys (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; posterior cortical atrophy; Balints syndrome; optic ataxia; Posterior parietal cortex; simultanagnosia; ocular apraxia
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Bálint's syndrome is named after the Hungarian physician who first reported a remarkable case of a man with complex visuospatial deficits following bilateral lesions within parietal and occipital cortex (Bálint, 1909). The syndrome has three primary symptoms: simultanagnosia (impaired spatial...