Q1. What is the function of the parietal lobes? How are they organized (anterior/posterior)?
Q2. What are the functions of Von Economo's 7 parietal areas?
Q3. What are deficits associated with injury to the left and right parietal lobes (which ones are lateralized?)
Q4. What symptoms of parietal-lobe damage do NOT fit neatly into the view of the parietal lobe as a visuomotor control centre?
Q5. Your patient has had a stroke involving the left parietal cortex, particularly areas 1,2, and 3, and the adjacent cortex (parts of PE/PF). What is your expectation regarding possible sensory and perceptual defects, and how would you test for this?
Q6. What is the difference between astereognosis and simultaneous extinction?
Q7. What are the three main symptoms of Balint's syndrome?
Q8. What neuropsychological tests can assess parietal lobe damage?