ABSTRACT
In the late 1970s, the Centro di Neuropsicologia of the Neurological Clinic of the State University of Milan enjoyed a very productive phase. The leading scientist of the so-called Milan Group (Grossi & Boller, 1996), Ennio De Renzi, had moved to the Neurological Clinic of the University of Modena. But research in Milan was still very active. Since the beginning in the late 1950s, the main focus of interest had changed. Hemispheric asymmetry was now a less central issue (De Renzi, 1967, 2001). Topics such as the rehabilitation of aphasia (Basso, Capitani, & Vignolo, 1979); the anatomical correlates of aphasic disorders in left-brain-damaged patients, as assessed by the novel neuroradiological technique of the CT scan, which allowed mapping of the lesion site on standard templates of the brain (Mazzocchi & Vignolo, 1979); and, with respect to the right hemisphere, unilateral spatial neglect (Bisiach & Luzzatti, 1978; Marshall & Halligan, 2003) were being actively investigated. A few years later, the Milan Group and the Centro di Neuropsicologia broke up, Luigi Vignolo moving to the Neurological Clinic of the University of Brescia (1982), Hans Spinnler to the First Neurological Clinic of the University of Milan in the San Paolo Hospital (1983), and Edoardo Bisiach to the Department of Psychology of the University of Padua (1990).
