Failure to recognise objects by active touch (astereognosia) results from lesion of parietal-cortex representation of finger kinaesthesis.

Tomberg, C; Desmedt, J E · Lancet · 1999

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Abstract

The inability to identify objects by manipulation with eyes closed (astereognosia) results from a focal cortical lesion of the second order parietal area 2, which integrates inputs from finger joints with tactile information.

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