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Rains, Principles of Human Neuropsychology Book Cover
Principles of Human Neuropsychology
G. Dennis Rains, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
Visual Recognition

Chapter Outline

A CASE OF VISUAL AGNOSIA

DISORDERS OF VISUAL RECOGNITION

Early Attempts at Understanding

Partial Cortical Blindness

Apperceptive Agnosia

Associative Agnosia

Summary of the Classical View of Visual Agnosia

PROBLEMS WITH THE CLASSICAL MODEL

Perceptual Impairment in Associative Agnosia

Significance of the Apperceptive-Associative Distinction

Perceptual Impairment in Prosopagnosia and Pure Alexia

The Problem of Category-Specific Impairments in Visual Recognition

THEORIES OF VISUAL AGNOSIA

Disconnection Model

Symbolic Search Model

Massively Parallel Constraint-Satisfaction Models of Object Recognition

A Neurobiologically Based Conceptualization of Visual Agnosia

RESTORATION OF SIGHT IN ADULTHOOD AFTER EARLY ONSET OF BLINDNESS

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