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Cognitive processes needed to analyze spatial structure and relations
In cognitive psychology, visuospatial function refers to cognitive processes necessary to "identify, integrate, and analyze space and visual form, details
Visuospatial_function
Two subtypes of dementia
deterioration, fluctuating cognitive decline, deterioration in visuospatial function, declining attention span, and visual hallucinations and delusions
Lewy_body_dementia
Assess neurological function associated with certain behaviors and brain damage
of visuospatial function should cover the areas of visual perception, visual construction and visual integration. Though not their only functions, these
Neuropsychological_test
Type of progressive dementia
are most commonly in three domains: attention, executive function, and visuospatial function. These fluctuating impairments are present early in the course
Dementia_with_Lewy_bodies
Nucleus in the centre of each cerebellar hemisphere
channels involved in nonmotor function, such as conscious thought and visuospatial function. The dentate nucleus is highly convoluted, with gyri (ridges on
Dentate_nucleus
Medical condition
language (comprehension, writing, speech), executive functioning, and visuospatial functioning. The term cognitive impairment covers many different diseases and
Cognitive_impairment
Part of the brain responsible for sensory input and some language processing
Its function also includes processing information relating to the sense of touch. Portions of the parietal lobe are involved with visuospatial processing
Parietal_lobe
Cognitive and affective symptoms of cerebellum damage
observed with visuospatial functions. One study found that patients with left cerebellar lesions performed more poorly on a visuospatial task than did
Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome
Cerebellar_cognitive_affective_syndrome
Medical diagnostic method
long-term visual memory Visuomotor functioning (eye-hand coordination) Visuospatial functioning Perception Attention, reaction time and vigilance (visual and auditory)
Cognitive_Function_Scanner
Cognitive processes necessary for control of behavior
executive functions are used. As an early step in this direction, an fMRI study on the flow of information processing during visuospatial reasoning has
Executive_functions
Model of the neural processing of vision and hearing
Leslie G. (1982-09-01). "Contribution of striate inputs to the visuospatial functions of parieto-preoccipital cortex in monkeys". Behavioural Brain Research
Two-streams_hypothesis
Medical condition
physical aggression, and abusive behaviors. Memory, orientation, and visuospatial function are relatively preserved during the early stages of the disease
Frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17
Frontotemporal_dementia_and_parkinsonism_linked_to_chromosome_17
Model of human memory
evidence for the distinction between visual and spatial parts of the visuospatial sketchpad: There is less interference between visual and spatial tasks
Baddeley's model of working memory
Baddeley's_model_of_working_memory
Medical condition
superior IQ as well as deficits in memory, language, fluency, and visuospatial function, which given the patient's age was considered to be compatible with
Steroid_dementia_syndrome
Lack of restraint
dysfunction of orbitofrontal and basotemporal cortices, affecting visuospatial functions, somatosensation, spatial memory, motoric, instinctive, affective
Disinhibition
Medical condition
verbal long-term memory testing, and TE patients performed better on visuospatial function tasks. They concluded that dysfunction in visual and spatial organization
Occipital_epilepsy
Medical condition
areas, the latter of which may account for observed deficits in visuospatial function. In addition to cognitive impairments, psychological dysfunction
HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder
HIV-associated_neurocognitive_disorder
Damage to the brain's memory capacity
memory, category fluency, psychomotor function, visuospatial function and in several measures of executive function. Patients also exhibited greater difficulty
Memory_disorder
Visual sensation of spatial awareness
Epipolar geometry Horopter Orthoptics Pupillary distance Vectograph Visuospatial function John H. Krantz. "Experiencing Sensation and Perception" (PDF). Retrieved
Stereopsis
Neuropsychological test to identify cognitive impairment
language, verbal fluency, and visuospatial skills. It is scored out of 100, with a higher score denoting better cognitive function. At the recommended cut-off
Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination
Addenbrooke's_Cognitive_Examination
Consequences of not getting enough sleep
overall impairment of attentional networks, which are necessary for visuospatial attention performance. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies
Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance
Effects_of_sleep_deprivation_on_cognitive_performance
Activities intended to maintain or improve cognitive abilities
generation. Solving jigsaw puzzles is an effective way to develop visuospatial functioning and keeping the mind sharp. Anyone can do it, as it is low-cost
Brain_training
Visual sense
affects the contralesional visuospatial field in majority of patients with unilateral damage. Anatomical correlates of visuospatial neglect and extinction
Visual_spatial_attention
Series of neuropsychological tests
derived domains: Attention and Executive Functioning, Language, Memory and Learning, Sensorimotor, and Visuospatial Processing. These domains were made up
NEPSY
Region of the parietal lobe of the brain
memory. Another area has been linked to visuospatial imagery. (It is not though clear how these—and the functions noted below—link with the above three
Precuneus
Way of observing and describing a patient's current state of mind
alertness, orientation, attention, memory, visuospatial functioning, language functions and executive functions. Unlike other sections of the MSE, use is
Mental_status_examination
Substance abuse of alcoholic beverages
which causes impairments in executive functioning such as impairments to working memory and visuospatial function. Alcohol abuse is also associated with
Alcohol_abuse
Tropane alkaloid & anticholinergic drug
acquisition, learning, visual recognition memory, visuospatial praxis, visuospatial memory, visuoperceptual function, verbal recall, and psychomotor speed. It
Scopolamine
Body parts responsible for vision
Ungerleider LG (1982). "Contribution of striate inputs to the visuospatial functions of parieto-preoccipital cortex in monkeys". Behav. Brain Res. 6
Visual_system
Part of the brain at the back of the head
regions, and these are specialized for different visual tasks, such as visuospatial processing, color differentiation, and motion perception. Bilateral lesions
Occipital_lobe
Sulcus on the lateral surface of the parietal lobe
also thought to play a role in other functions, including processing symbolic numerical information, visuospatial working memory, decision-making, and
Intraparietal_sulcus
Large-scale brain network involved in voluntary orienting of attention
(FEF). It is named and most known for its role in voluntary orienting of visuospatial attention. As the IPS and FEF were noticed to be activated during many
Dorsal_attention_network
Place-activated hippocampus cells found in some mammals
visuospatial sensory information is critical to the formation and recollection of place field. Although place cells primarily rely on visuospatial input
Place_cell
Large-scale brain network involved in detecting and attending to relevant stimuli
2014). "Domain-general signals in the cingulo-opercular network for visuospatial attention and episodic memory". Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26
Salience_network
Theory that regions of the brain are specialized for functions
lateralization of verbal working memory in the left frontal cortex and visuospatial working memory in the right frontal cortex. Lesion studies support these
Functional specialization (brain)
Functional_specialization_(brain)
Visual perception disorder
impact visuospatial skills, visual scanning and attentional mechanisms. Since it represents impairment of both visual and language functions, it is a
Bálint's_syndrome
Hypothesis about the evolution of human language
brain may have acquired new functions in parallel with losing others – such as acquiring language while losing visuospatial temporal storage ability. Matsuzawa
Cognitive_tradeoff_hypothesis
Neuropsychological assessment
evaluation of different functions, such as visuospatial abilities, memory, attention, planning, working memory and (executive functions). First proposed by
Rey–Osterrieth_complex_figure
Exceptionally precocious child
visuospatial working memory. This activation serves a mediation effect on the correlation between abacus-based mental calculation and visuospatial working
Child_prodigy
Disruption of cognitive control processes
However, performance on tasks associated with the phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad are typically less affected. More specifically, patients with
Executive_dysfunction
Genetic disorder
esotropia, due to inherent subnormal binocular visual function and cognitive deficits in visuospatial construction. People with WS have problems with visual
Williams_syndrome
Association fiber tract of the brain
with an unbalanced speed of visuospatial processing along the SLF II. This lateralization may be predictive of visuospatial recovery in patients with lesions
Superior longitudinal fasciculus
Superior_longitudinal_fasciculus
Faculty of mind to store and retrieve data
information to the three component processes: the phonological loop, the visuospatial sketchpad, and the episodic buffer. The phonological loop stores auditory
Memory
Effect of alcohol consumption on the brain
Deficits in retrieval of verbal and nonverbal information and in visuospatial functioning were evident in youths with histories of heavy drinking during
Long-term impact of alcohol on the brain
Long-term_impact_of_alcohol_on_the_brain
Development of memory in children
retention of material in particular informational domains. Finally, the visuospatial sketchpad stores material in terms of its visual or spatial features
Memory_development
Neurodevelopmental disorder
abilities, speech prosody, fine motor coordination, mathematical reasoning, visuospatial memory, and social skills. NVLD is not recognised by the DSM-5. NVLD
Nonverbal_learning_disorder
Group of 25 tests to assess cognitive function
Philpot, Michael; Robbins, Trevor W. (1988). "A Comparative Study of Visuospatial Memory and Learning in Alzheimer-Type Dementia and Parkinson's Disease"
Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery
Cambridge_Neuropsychological_Test_Automated_Battery
Cognitive functions linked to specific neural systems
cognitive impairment with coverage of attention, executive function, memory, language, visuospatial skills, and orientation. Comprehensive evaluations typically
Neurocognition
Approach to the study of cognitive development
The visuospatial sketch pad is the other portion of the central executive. This is used to hold visual and spatial information. The visuospatial sketch
Information_processing_theory
Disorder affecting learning arithmetic
dyscalculia have weaker activation of the intraparietal sulcus during visuospatial working memory tasks. Brain activity in this region during such tasks
Dyscalculia
Loss of ability to write
other language disorders. Peripheral agraphias usually target motor and visuospatial skills in addition to language and tend to involve motoric areas of the
Agraphia
Progressive neurodegenerative disease
executive function, visuospatial functioning, or other areas of cognition. The neurocognitive changes must be a decline from a prior level of function, and
Alzheimer's_disease
Part of the anatomy of the brain
Einstein's lower parietal lobe (which is involved in mathematical thought, visuospatial cognition and imagery of movement) was 15% larger than average. Circular
Operculum_(brain)
Surgical procedure to damage the globus pallidus
effects including problems with language learning, visuospatial constructional ability, and executive functions. Bilateral pallidotomy is not effective, with
Pallidotomy
Standardized test of visuospatial skills
Line Orientation (JLO) is a standardized test of visuospatial skills commonly associated with functioning of the parietal lobe in the right hemisphere. The
Judgment_of_Line_Orientation
Endocrine gland in the neck
tadpole into a meat-eating land-dwelling frog, with better neurological, visuospatial, smell and cognitive abilities for hunting, as seen in other predatory
Thyroid
Impairment that can result from chemotherapy treatment
subjective measures of cognitive impairment and executive function, attention, processing speed, visuospatial performance, response inhibition, cognitive flexibility
Post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment
Post-chemotherapy_cognitive_impairment
Area of the prefrontal cortex of primates
monitoring and manipulating items, or if it has a certain content, namely visuospatial information, which makes it possible to mentally represent coordinates
Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
Dorsolateral_prefrontal_cortex
Medical condition
tests measuring cognitive, sensory, and motor functions including abstract reasoning, memory, visuospatial ability, and gait and balance. That being said
Cerebral_atrophy
X chromosome monosomy
exhibit weaker nonverbal skills – particularly in arithmetic, select visuospatial skills, and processing speed. They have difficulties with directional
Turner_syndrome
Screening assessment for detecting cognitive impairment
trials of five nouns and delayed recall after approximately five minutes. Visuospatial abilities are assessed using a clock drawing task (3 points) and a three-dimensional
Montreal_Cognitive_Assessment
Group of peptides
including declines in cognitive functioning, memory, fine motor movements, executive functioning, and visuospatial skills. Aβ is formed after sequential
Amyloid_beta
Enzyme
believed to be related to cognitive deficits in predictive pursuit and visuospatial working memory. Kynurenine-3-monooxygenase deficiency is associated with
Kynurenine_3-monooxygenase
Psychological test of working memory
Corsi blocks tasks with a normal forward order requires support from the visuospatial sketch pad, but not from the phonological loop. When the sequence to
Corsi_block-tapping_test
Inability to comprehend or formulate language
deficits. These deficits can occur in both the verbal domain as well as the visuospatial domain. Furthermore, these deficits are often associated with performance
Aphasia
Eating disorder
Evidence for functional connectivity impairment in cognitive control and visuospatial and body-signal integration". Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
Anorexia
Process that distinguishes an organism's sensory information
lobe, responsible for conscious thought, Parietal lobe, responsible for visuospatial processing, the Occipital lobe, responsible for the sense of sight, and
Sensory_processing
subtraction method. Researchers compare what has been impaired with what is functioning regularly. This contrast between the destroyed and intact regions of
Bilingual_memory
Acquisition, organization, and use of knowledge about spatial environments
such factors can be: Visuospatial abilities. i.e. the generation, retaining, and transformation of abstract visual images. Visuospatial abilities can be distinguished
Spatial_cognition
Medical condition
hemorrhages can mimic lacunar infarcts, but true cortical signs (aphasia, visuospatial neglect, gaze deviation, and visual field defects) are always absent
Lacunar_stroke
Component of many IQ tests
2006). "Cognitive mechanisms, specificity and neural underpinnings of visuospatial peaks in autism". Brain. 129 (Pt 7): 1789–802. doi:10.1093/brain/awl072
Block_design_test
Repatterned modes of perception after devotion to an activity
in the context of Baddeley's model of working memory, also known as visuospatial working memory (WM). When people play Tetris for prolonged periods, their
Tetris_effect
Depression characterized by improved mood in response to positive events
speed tests. Although both show impairment in several areas such as visuospatial memory and verbal fluency, melancholic patients tend to show more impairment
Atypical_depression
Physiological disturbance of perception
Y (2015). "Vestibular involvement in cognition: Visuospatial ability, attention, executive function, and memory". Journal of Vestibular Research. 25
Balance_disorder
Neuropsychological assessment
(immediate memory, visuospatial/constructional, language, attention, delayed memory). There is no assessment of executive function, phonemic fluency,
Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status
Repeatable_Battery_for_the_Assessment_of_Neuropsychological_Status
Cohort born from 1997 to 2012
working memory, the complexity of vocabulary usage, and three-dimensional visuospatial reasoning have shown signs of secular decline. In a 2018 paper, cognitive
Generation_Z
Perception that the external world is not real
process, with cognitive impairments demonstrated in immediate recall and visuospatial deficits. This can be best understood as the feeling of seeing events
Derealization
Dementia involving the frontal or temporal lobes
palsies. Because of the pathological and anatomical nature of PSP and CBS, visuospatial defects can manifest alongside Parkinsonian-like movement symptoms (though
Frontotemporal_dementia
Class of CNS depressant drugs
with moderate to large adverse effects on all areas of cognition, with visuospatial memory being the most commonly detected impairment. Some of the other
Benzodiazepine
Thinking through visual processing
Functional and Structural Networks Underlying Visuospatial versus Linguistic Reasoning in High-Functioning Autism". Neuropsychologia. 48 (1): 86–95. doi:10
Visual_thinking
Inability to visually perceive more than one object at a time
severe neuropsychological impairments involving space representation (visuospatial processing). The term "simultanagnosia" was first coined in 1924 by Wolpert
Simultanagnosia
Quality related to inquisitive thinking
region of the brain that is involved in attention, episodic memory, and visuospatial processing. There is a correlation between the amount of grey matter
Curiosity
American psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist (born 1939)
seen. Another experiment revealed the right hemisphere's was adept at visuospatial relations. A card showing a pattern produced by a set of blocks was put
Michael_Gazzaniga
Theory of cognition
proposed by Alan Baddeley includes a two-part processing system with a visuospatial sketchpad and a phonological loop which essentially maps to Paivio's
Dual-coding_theory
Vertebrate brain region
episodic verbal memory and those in the non-dominant hemisphere affect visuospatial memory. CA1 lesions shows selective affect over other CA subfields. The
Hippocampus
Cognitive system for temporarily holding information
visuospatial scratchpad with the central executive functioning as a control center of sorts, directing info between the phonological and visuospatial
Working_memory
Set of disorders affecting development of nervous system
learning disorder. Nonverbal learning disorder involves an impairment in visuospatial abilities making it difficult to process nonverbal information such as
Neurodevelopmental_disorder
Preference or tendency to use a specific hand
where the verbal processing takes place in the right-hemisphere and visuospatial processing is dominant to the left hemisphere. Others have more ambiguous
Handedness
Impairment in the clarity of consciousness
motor control, and visuospatial skills. Cognitive deficits differ significantly between patients, suggesting "that the functions affected by chronic
Clouding_of_consciousness
Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens
brain development. LIMK1 hemizygosity is implicated in the impaired visuospatial constructive cognition of Williams syndrome. LIMK1 has been shown to
LIMK1
Psychological concept
indicating that left hemispherical functioning is primarily verbal and associational, and that of the right primarily visuospatial and apperceptive. Thus the
Jungian_archetypes
smaller parietal lobes and cerebellum, areas implicated in tool use, visuospatial integration, numeracy, creativity, and higher-order conceptualization
Neanderthal_extinction
Hypothesis in cognitive neuroscience
intraparietal sulcus is only activated during calculation tasks when visuospatial, language, and calculation tasks are also given. This same area is activated
Neuronal_recycling_hypothesis
Visual ability to perceive the world in 3D
require conscious human cognition paired with medium-level visuospatial system processing functions concentrated within the neocortex to discern. Nonpictorial
Depth_perception
Form of agnosia
mental misrepresentation of the body can be deduced: whether semantic, visuospatial, somatosensory, or motor misrepresentations. Neuropsychological tests
Autotopagnosia
Portion of the mammalian cerebral cortex
Evidence for functional connectivity impairment in cognitive control and visuospatial and body-signal integration" (PDF). Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 71: 578–589
Insular_cortex
Logographic writing system
readers of character-based languages appears to involve independent visuospatial and phonological disorders co-occurring. This seems to be a distinct
Chinese_characters
Differences in the mental functions and behaviors of the sexes
performed better on verbal abilities while males performed better on visuospatial abilities. Females have been found to perform better on tests of vocabulary
Sex_differences_in_psychology
Structure in the midbrain
Dash, S; Yang X; Wang H; Crawford JD (2015). "Continuous updating of visuospatial memory in superior colliculus during slow eye movements". Curr Biol.
Superior_colliculus
Therapy to regain or improve neurocognitive function that has been lost or diminished
Philpot, Michael; Robbins, Trevor W. (1988). "A Comparative Study of Visuospatial Memory and Learning in Alzheimer-Type Dementia and Parkinson's Disease"
Rehabilitation (neuropsychology)
Rehabilitation_(neuropsychology)
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