Involuntary grasping and groping responses to space-related visual stimuli

Mov Disord. 1987;2(1):9-23. doi: 10.1002/mds.870020102.

Abstract

Involuntary groping-grasping responses to visual stimuli were studied in relation to the location of the stimuli in the space surrounding the patient. The following space-related patterns of stimulus-response were observed in four patients: (a) responses were evoked only by visual stimuli in the hemispace ipsilateral to the arm involved; (b) responses were evoked only by visual stimuli within the reach of maximal arm extension; (c) responses were evoked only by visual stimuli in the space around the hand; (d) all such patterns were variously combined. These findings are discussed in relation to the general problem of specific correlations between sensorimotor subsystems and peripersonal behavioral space.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Brain Diseases / physiopathology
  • Electroencephalography
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Orientation / physiology
  • Personal Space
  • Photic Stimulation*
  • Psychomotor Performance / physiology*
  • Reflex, Abnormal / physiopathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Touch / physiology*
  • Visual Perception / physiology*