Exempel på agnosia

• These may arise because of agnosia and oral dyspraxia.

• Recognition errors are semantic (identifying a camel as a dog) whereas in apperceptive agnosia errors are typically visually based.

• Predominant involvement of both temporal lobes leads to a syndrome of fluent aphasia with associative visual agnosia (semantic dementia).

• Many of the same researchers who studied the visual agnosia patients have also carried out parallel research on healthy subjects.

• Visual agnosia leads to a variety of severe behavioural problems.

• Failure of object recognition in associative agnosia may not be total.

• The removal of binocular cues disrupts the calibration of grasping in patients with visual form agnosia.

• In other words, this patient is apparently incapable of using her ventral system for analyzing visual input; that is, she is suffering from an extreme type of visual form agnosia.

• The poor performance on the recognition of objects' silhouettes could indicate a mild object agnosia because it was not based on any inability to see the outline of the shapes.

• In order for an individual to be diagnosed with agnosia, they must only be experiencing a sensory deficit in a single modality.

• He gave the classic definition of agnosia as a normal percept stripped of its meaning.

• It is a somatosensory agnosia, or a sign of neglect syndrome.

• She also had object agnosia, which she overcame by touching objects to recognize them.

• The title of the book comes from the case study of a man with visual agnosia.

• Often individuals diagnosed with auditory verbal agnosia are also incapable of discriminating between non-verbal sounds as well as speech.