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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye'] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masturbatory] Reference

The authors offer two explanations of "mirror agnosia.".    From Wordnik.com.  [I Can't Reach It; It's Inside the Mirror.] Reference

When the cortical centers were damaged and could no longer interpret them, the result was agnosia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masturbatory] Reference

They have a long-standing interest in specific disorders of auditory processing, such as auditory agnosia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference

(Visual form agnosia is normally caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, for reasons that are little understood.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness] Reference

Further, the authors believe that the behavior of the patients with "mirror agnosia" may provide insight into how we represent mirror images.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Can't Reach It; It's Inside the Mirror.] Reference

The title refers to a man with visual agnosia, a condition where the ability to perceive or understand objects is lost, despite otherwise normal vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: Oliver Sacks discusses his work on Book Club] Reference

As a consequence of this heterogeneity, SLI, researchers have introduced a number of subtypes of the disorder, including such things as ˜Verbal auditory agnosia,™.    From Wordnik.com.  [Innateness and Language] Reference

This is a neurological syndrome called visual form agnosia, which results from damage localized to both temporal lobes, leaving primary visual cortex and the parietal lobes intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness] Reference

They also flashed, Hillary's teary moment, in agnosia, and brought us the Hillary show on "sexism," involving a man, sporting a Hillary sticker, who, along with his friend, shouted, "iron our shirts.".    From Wordnik.com.  [How Hillary Clinton Won Pennsylvania] Reference

Other neuropsychological studies relevant to unified consciousness have examined blindsight (Weiskrantz 1986), blindsight and visual agnosia (van Gulick 1994), and hallucinations and thought insertion (Stephens and Graham 2000) and many similar phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

For if a patient develops a so-called visual agnosia (as did my patient, the man who mistook his wife for a hat), he may be unable to recognize anything visually, even though the elementary visual sensations (and even the capacity to draw) are perfectly intact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside the Executive Brain] Reference

Two interpretations of mirror agnosia are possible, that are not mutually exclusive: a the syndrome may be a specific consequence of the neglect. it is as though the patient was saying to herself 'Since the reflection is in the mirror, the pen must be on my left.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Can't Reach It; It's Inside the Mirror.] Reference

Picasso's visual agnosia returns when he can't recognize Taub and Thirteen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinema Blend Feeds] Reference

It's called visual agnosia, an inability to recognize or interpret objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lead Stories from AOL] Reference

He suffered from visual agnosia, or the inability to recognize familiar objects or faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest stories] Reference

And but this is typical of what's called an agnosia, where percepts are stripped of meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

And "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat" had face blindness and every other sort of agnosia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye'] Reference

Joana Prats suffers from agnosia, a strange neuropsychological illness that affects her perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twitch] Reference

It was crowded-rich in personal history and significance, I imagined, but a nightmare, a complete chaos, for someone with visual agnosia.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

He also has severe visual agnosia, which means his brain can't process what is in front of his eyes, so now he can't even see the pictures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and style | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Foreman says acute visual agnosia (the brain's inability to recognize familiar objects) is an indication of a probable brain tumor or stroke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinema Blend Feeds] Reference

Foreman notices that Picasso's agnosia seems to have disappeared while in the hospital once he spies a sketch of his girlfriend he's completed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cinema Blend Feeds] Reference

Lilian's relative success in naming solid objects, as opposed to drawings of them, again made me wonder whether she had a specific agnosia for representations.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

They look and speak past one another, debating the etymologies of "agnosticism" and "agnosia," the last being the doctor's first guess as to how the Japanese patient lost his sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

Then, in 1996, she started to make occasional embarrassing mistakes, such as failing to recognize old friends, and she found herself thinking of a case history of mine she had read years before, entitled "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat," about a man with visual agnosia.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

She had, too, a more general visual agnosia, and when I presented her with pictures to identify, it was difficult for her even to recognize pictures as pictures-she would sometimes look at a column of print or a white margin, thinking it was the picture I was quizzing her about.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Such is the condition of a person suffering from a visual agnosia (see James.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Hartley] Reference

(word blindness), difficulty noticing movement or identifying drawn objects, a loss of academic abilities (writing, reading, etc.), and '' color agnosia '' (difficulty in color recognition).    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]

For example, in Babinski’s agnosia, a patient with hemiparalysis may attempt to get out of bed and walk and be prone to an accident, despite evidence of paralysis from repeated failures to walk and despite instructions from staff and visitors not to walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Chapter III, under the general heading, "Traumatic Dysthymias": (a) Traumatic amnesia; (b) Post-traumatic Korsakoff syndrome; (c) Traumatic mental confusion; (d) Post-traumatic agnosia; (e) Post-traumatic dementias; (f) Systematized chronic post-traumatic deliriums.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

75% marked impairment; bilateral impairment, worse on the left or frontal; deficit in discursive thinking; poor motor-perceptual coordination; right-left disorientation; reading/writing/language comprehension deficits; difficulty performing simple motor tasks (ideomotor dyspraxia); difficulty in recognizing body parts (agnosia).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Babinski’s agnosia, 87, 269.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference