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

ISBN-13: 9781138411555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

University Of London Glyn W. Humphreys Birkbeck College

Opis

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,

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