1st Edition
To See But Not To See: A Case Study Of Visual Agnosia
128 Pages
by
Psychology Press
128 Pages
by
Psychology Press
124 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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Brain damage may sometimes cause specific impairments in human behaviour. One rare impairment is the failure to recognize everyday objects by sight, a problem which is termed visual agnosia. In this book, the authors discuss the case of a patient,
Visual object recognition and its disorders; the history of a case of visual agnosia; the process of visual object recognition; some experimental investigations; other visual problems in agnosic patients; some conclusions about agnosia and visual recognition; living with agnosia.
Biography
Glyn W. Humphreys, M. Jane Riddoch
