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- Title
- Topographical disorientation : towards an integrated framework for assessment
- Related
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation, Vol. 17, Issue 1, p.34-52
- DOI
- 10.1080/09602010500505021
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Date
- 2007
- Author/Creator
- Brunsdon, Ruth
- Author/Creator
- Nickels, Lyndsey
- Author/Creator
- Coltheart, Max
- Description
- Topographical disorientation, the inability to find one's way in large-scale environments, is a relatively common disorder. However, there are relatively few cognitive neuropsychological studies that investigate the nature of topographical cognition. Theoretical progress has been hindered by a number of factors including: terminological confusion; lack of theoretically driven assessment; the use of broad classifications for the nature of underlying impairments; and an ongoing failure to examine topographical skills in real-life settings. As a result, there is currently no well-established or widely accepted theoretical framework encompassing all aspects of this multifaceted area of cognition. In addition, there is a relative paucity of published case studies that include a comprehensive, theoretically based assessment of topographical disorientation, and treatment of the disorder has received virtually no formal investigation (with the exception of Davis & Coltheart, 1999). Thus, the current paper focuses on the development of a broad framework for understanding topographical cognition that integrates a number of recent theories of topographical orientation and mental imagery (Farah, 1984; Kosslyn, 1980; Riddoch & Humphreys, 1989). The aim of the paper is to present a preliminary framework that can be used as a basis for further refinement and development of theoretical proposals, and be employed by clinicians as a starting point for assessment planning.
- Description
- 19 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 170200 Cognitive Sciences
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/47377
- Identifier
- mq:6602
- Identifier
- ISSN:1464-0694
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2006011544
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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