ABSTRACT
Arnold Pick, the eminent Prague neurologist, first provided a number of case descriptions of patients showing difficulties in a variety of tasks implying awareness, recognition, naming, and pointing to body parts (Pick, 1908, 1915, 1922). This work has been widely quoted and is considered a milestone in the history of neuropsychological research on bodily representation (Denes, 1989; Poeck & Orgass, 1971; Semenza, 2001). The meaning of Pick’s findings, however, seems to have been, in large measure, misinterpreted by following authors and some of their implications seem to have escaped Pick himself.
