Agnosia JONATHAN J . MAROTTA and MARLENE BEHRMANN
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چکیده
Visual agnosia is a disorder of recognition confined to the visual realm, in which a person cannot arrive at the meaning of some or all categories of previously known visual stimuli despite normal or near-normal visual perception and intact alertness, intelligence, and language. This article takes a multidisciplinary approach in discussing this impairment and considers clinical and neurological studies in humans as well as neurophysiological data in nonhuman primates.
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