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18 Cards in this Set
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a series of involuntary,abrupt and rapid small movements or jerks made by both eyes simultaneously in changing the point of fixation
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saccade
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anterior zone processes somatic sensations and perceptions; posterior zone is specialized for integrating sensory input from the somatic and visual regions
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parietal lobe function
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as we move, location of our body parts change and must constantly be updated so that we can make future movements more smoothly
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sensorimotor transformation
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inability to do arithmetic
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acalculia
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tactile perception
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stereognosis
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movements of the fingers are clumsy because the person has lost the necessary feedback about their exact position
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afferent paresis
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inability to recognize an object by touch
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astereognosis
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the loss of knowledge or sense of one's own body or bodily condition
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asomatognosia
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unawareness or denial of illness
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anosognosia
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indifference to illness
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anosodiaphoria
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inability to localize and name body parts
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autopagnosia
(finger agnosia, inability to point to the various fingers of either hand or show them to the examiner) |
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absence of normal reaction to pain, withdrawal hand from a hot stove
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asymbolia for pain
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deficits in eye gaze...optic ataxia (deficit in reaching under visual guidance)q
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Balint's syndrome
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neglect of part of the body or space contralateral to a lesion
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contralateral neglect
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finger agnosia, right-left confusion, agraphia, acalculia
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Gerstmann's syndrome
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inability to write
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agraphia
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inability to make voluntary movements in the absence of paralysis or other sensorimotor impairment. esp inability to make proper use of an object
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apraxia
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Michael Posner proposed that one function of the parietal cortex is to allow attention to shift from one stimulus to another
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disengagement
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