Visual-Perceptual Disorders

Visual agnosia

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-inability to identify and recognize familiar objects and people despite intact visual anatomical structures

-inability to identify familiar faces because they cannot perceive expressions of facial muscles that make each human different

Simultanagnosia

-inability to interpret a visual stimulus as whole; unable to integrate all details of a scene to understand the scene as a whole

-a visual distortion of the physical properties of objects causing objects to appear larger, smaller, heavier or lighter than they really are

-inability to remember that appropriate colors for specific objects; tend to forget colors of common objects (ex. think a banana is blue)

-inability to remember the names of colors (ex. remember a banana is yellow but forget the name of the color)