Human Neuropsychology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Apperceptive Agnosia | - part of object agnosia - failure of object recognition in which basic visual functions are preserved (acuity, color, motion) - inability to develop percept of structure of an object - Case D.F. - gross bilateral damage to lateral parts of occipital lobes |
| Multagnosia/simultagnosia | - can perceive basic shape but cannot perceive more than 1 object at the same time - patient claimed blindness but really just overwhelmed at task at hand |
| Associative Agnosia | - inability to recognize object despite its perception - can copy drawing but can't identify it - lesions to anterior temporal lobes |
| Prosopognosia | - facial agnosia - can't recognize faces but can recognize face information such as birthmark, mustache, hairdo |
| Alexia | - in ability to read - damage to left fusiform and ligual areas - only left hemisphere appears to be able to combine letters to form words |
| Form of object agnosia | inability to construct perceptual wholes from parts |
| Form of associative agnosia | - case word memory is either damaged or inaccessible - damage to left fusiform and lingual areas |
| Visual Imagery Summary | - neural structures mediating perception and visualization of objects are not completely independent - mental rotation of objects is superior in right hemisphere; related to dorsal stream - image generation occurs in left temporal-occipital region |
| Snapshot: generating mental images | - concrete words increase activation in left posterior temporal-occipital region |
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