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The years immediately following World War II were particularly rich in studies on spatial orientation disorders (De Renzi, 1982) and most of the associated laboratory tasks were designed at this time. Neuropsychologists first considered the visual sphere and then mnemic and instrumental factors before taking up the notion of the supramodal nature of space disorders. This evolution led De Renzi (1972) to wonder whether perceptual impairments (e.q. depth, localization) and space representation impairments could appear independently or whether they constituted a single class of disorders.
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Van Der Linden, M., Seron, X. (1987). A Case of Dissociation in Topographical Disorders: The Selective Breakdown of Vector-Map Representation. In: Ellen, P., Thinus-Blanc, C. (eds) Cognitive Processes and Spatial Orientation in Animal and Man. NATO ASI Series, vol 37. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3533-4_16
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