Our latest manuscript has been accepted for publication in Cortex: "100 years after Liepmann - Lesion correlates of diminished selection and application of familiar versus novel tools"
Published open access in Cortex: "100 years after Liepmann - Lesion correlates of diminished selection and application of familiar versus novel tools" In patients with brain damage, especially in the left hemisphere, tool-use can be affected. To date there are only few studies that looked at impaired performance in the selection and application of familiar versus novel tools. In the presented study we analyzed neuroanatomical correlates for impaired selection and application of familiar versus novel tools in a large group of stroke patients....
...In this article data of 58 left (LBD) and 51 right brain damaged (RBD) stroke patients is shown. Patients participated in the Novel Tools Test (NTT) and the Familiar Tools Test (FTT) of the Diagnostic Instrument for Limb Apraxia (DILA-S). In the presented study we applied modern voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) to illustrate relevant damaged brain regions per task. We visualized our current interpretation of the data within a neuroanatomical model for apraxia of tool use. Now available for download: Follow this link to get to the open access manuscript