The importance of the insular cortex for vestibular and spatial syndromes

Background and purpose The aim of the study was to identify the neuroanatomical correlates and associations of neuropsychological syndromes after acute unilateral right‐hemisphere brain lesions. The neuropsychological syndromes considered were orientation in three‐dimensional space such as tilts of the subjective visual vertical or of the subjective haptic vertical, pusher syndrome, visual neglect and unawareness of paresis (anosognosia for...