128 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    128 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    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,

    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.

    Biography

    Glyn W. Humphreys, M. Jane Riddoch