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Brief Report: Two Day-Date Processing Methods in an Autistic Savant Calendar Calculator
Special ability in computing the day of week for given dates was observed in a 24 year-old male (FB) diagnosed with Asperger syndrome. FB performed almost flawlessly (98.2 %) both with past and future dates, ...
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Effect of a visual distractor on line bisection
Previous studies have shown that a flanking distractor produces a spatial bias during line bisection. In the present study, we investigated whether that bias depends on perceptual or motor components. Particip...
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Effects of spatiotopic factors on bisection of radial lines
Under visual guidance normal subjects usually misbisect radial lines farther than the true midpoint (distal bias). We investigated whether this distal bias is constant across the peripersonal space or it varie...
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Brief Report: Error Pattern in an Autistic Savant Calendar Calculator
Special ability in computing the day of the week from given dates was observed in a 18 years old male, L.E., suffering from autism. Neuropsychological testing revealed severe deficits in all cognitive domains ...
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Age-related Differences in the Production of Textual Descriptions
Narratives produced by 69 healthy Italian adults were analyzed for age-related changes of microlinguistic, macrolinguistic and informative aspects. The participants were divided into five age groups (20–24, 25...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Conceptual and Lexical Factors in the Production of Speech and Conversational Gestures: Neuropsychological Evidence
Parallel breakdown of gestures and speech following neurological damage supports the notion that ”... gestures and speech ... share a computational stage...” (McNeill, 1992) and emphasizes the role of neuropsy...
