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- The research on limb apraxia has historically focused on gesture production in patients with neurological deficits, primarily addressing gesture imitation and object-related gestures, while overlooking communicative gestures.
- A review aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of limb apraxia by integrating existing cognitive models with recent findings related to meaningful gestures.
- The overview also explores how limb apraxia may be influenced by other cognitive deficits that are present in affected individuals.
Article Abstract
Since the first studies on limb apraxia carried out by Hugo Liepmann more than a century ago, research interests focused on the way humans process manual gestures by assessing gesture production after patients suffered neurologic deficits. Recent reviews centered their attention on deficits in gesture imitation or processing object-related gestures, namely pantomimes and transitive gestures, thereby neglecting communicative/intransitive gestures. This review will attempt to reconcile limb apraxia in its entirety. To this end, the existing cognitive models of praxis processing that have been designed to account for the complexity of this disorder will be taken into account, with an attempt to integrate in these models the latest findings in the studies of limb apraxia, in particular on meaningful gestures. Finally, this overview questions the very nature of limb apraxia when other cognitive deficits are observed.
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