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n. - Inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.

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  • For him, the agnosia - the term agnosia is used for a situation in which one sees something clearly but one can't ascribe any meaning to it, you can't recognize it.
  • The German neurologist Hermann Munk called this second condition "mind-blindness" (Seelenblindheit) and today it is known as "agnosia," a term we owe to Sigmund Freud.
  • The authors offer two explanations of "mirror agnosia."
  • When the cortical centers were damaged and could no longer interpret them, the result was agnosia.
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