In those with visual agnosia, the parts of the brain responsible for processing that information don't work as they should, and this manifests in a discrepancy between what they see and what the ...

Prosopagnosia, also known as "face blindness", is the inability to recognise faces. Visual agnosia is an impairment in recognition of visually presented objects. It is not due to a deficit in ...

Dementia can cause significant changes in eating habits, from patients forgetting mealtimes to being unable to identify what ...

One of these is agnosia, or “an impairment of correctly understanding information provided by the senses of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting.” For instance, someone might not ...

When patients fail to recognize what an object is, they are exhibiting visual agnosia caused by the loss of semantic knowledge for the object. Circumlocution and visual agnosia can be observed in ...

It provides an organized approach to neurological conditions such as amnesic syndrome, aphasia, agnosia and apraxia, it includes previously unpublished data on grasp reflex and Wernicke disease is ...

Winocur, G. & Behrmann, M. What is special in face recognition? Nineteen experiments on a person with visual object agnosia and dyslexia but normal face recognition. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 9 ...