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Facets of Pantomime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2017

Georg Goldenberg
Georg Goldenberg*
Affiliation:
Technical Universtiy Munich, Department of Neurology, Vienna, Austria
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Correspondence and reprint requests to: Georg Goldenberg, Dollinergasse 10, A 1190, Vienna, Austria. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Objectives: Exploring the nature of defective pantomime in apraxia. Methods: Critical review of behavioral associations and dissociations between defective pantomime, imitation of gestures, and real tool use. Analysis of congruencies between crucial lesions for pantomime, imitation, and tool use. Results: There are behavioral double dissociations between pantomime and imitation, and their cerebral substrates show very little overlap. Whereas defective pantomime is bound to temporal and inferior frontal lesions, imitation is mainly affected by parietal lesions. Pantomime usually replicates the motor actions of real use but on scrutiny there are important differences between the movements of real use and of pantomime that cast doubt on the assumption that pantomime is produced by the same motor programs as actual use. A more plausible proposal posits that pantomime is a communicative gesture that uses manual actions for conveying information about objects and their use. The manual actions are constructed by selection and combination of distinctive features of tools and actions. They frequently include replications of characteristic motor actions of real use, but the main criterion for selection and modification of features is the comprehensibility of the gestures rather than the accurate replication of the motor actions of real use. Conclusions: Pantomime of tool use is a communicative gesture rather than a replication of the motor actions of real use. (JINS, 2017, 23, 121–127)

Keywords

ApraxiaAphasiaCommunicationGesturesTemporal cortex
Type
Research Articles
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Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 23 , Special Issue 2: Special Issue: Motor Cognition , February 2017 , pp. 121 - 127
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2017 

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