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Visuospatial construction is a complex cognitive operation that is composed of a purely constructional component (visuoconstruction proper), and visuoperceptive, attentional, and decision-making components. The anatomical correlates of visuospatial construction and its cognitive subcomponents are poorly understood. The purpose of the present study was to determine the anatomical correlates of visuospatial construction by applying lesion-symptom mapping in a cohort of 111 patients with first-ever ischemic stroke. We employed the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure (ROCF) copy test and the Judgment of Line Orientation (JLO); both tests measure visuoperception, while only the ROCF has a constructional component. We first performed assumption-free voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping, which revealed large shared right hemispheric correlates for the ROCF and JLO in the frontal lobe, superior temporal lobe …