Inability to obey motor instruction

• Can’t execute the action, even tho the command is understood (ex “show me how you brush teeth”)
• Not due to motor weakness

Localization

Left hemisphere, frontal and parietal lobe lesion

Classification

Ideomotor

• skilled motor acts and/or gestures

  

Ideational

• multi-step tasks

Presentation

• Using body part as object
• Spatial error (i.e. incorrect position)
• Temporal error (i.e. slow movement)