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What is visual agnosia?

Asked by earthyearth (61points) March 9th, 2011

Visual Agnosia

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Seems like the eyes work, but recognition isn’t.
Looks fascinating!

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“Agnosia is the general term given to a variety of recognition disorders thought to occur at later stages of processing; in other words, beyond the level of basic sensory mechanisms such as vision and acuity.

The disorder can occur at the level of the perception of a stimulus, or at the level at which meaning is assigned to a correctly perceived cue.

Although these disorders often overlap with each other as well as with other disorders such as aphasia, and are often hard to distinguish in an absolute manner, there are basic characteristics that have been established for each subtype.”

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