To See But Not to See: A Case Study of Visual Agnosia: A Case Study of Visual Agnosia

ISBN-13: 9780863770654 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 124 str.

Glyn W. Humphreys; M. Jane Riddoch; W. Humphre Glyn

Opis

Brain damage may sometimes cause remarkably specific impairments in human behaviour. One very rare and specific 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, John, who suffered from visual agnosia after having a stroke. John also had difficulty recognizing faces or his immediate environment.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Glyn W. Humphreys, M. Jane Riddoch