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Numbsense of shape, texture, and objects after left parietal infarction: A case report
Keisuke Hanada1,2, Kayoko Yokoi3, Akinori Futamura4
1Department of Rehabilitation, Suishokai Murata Hospital, Osaka City, Osaka, Japan.
Abstract:
Numbsense is a phenomenon, wherein patients can correctly respond to somatosensory stimuli at a higher rate than expected by chance, but cannot perceive the same stimuli consciously. Previously, numbsense has been reported in tactile localization of stimuli on the patient's own body. Here, we describe a patient with numbsense that involved touched objects. The patient could not recognize the majority of somatosensory stimuli after left parietal infarction, but could correctly select shape, texture, and object stimuli more frequently than expected by chance.
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