agnosia

Agnosia is a neurological disorder characterized by an inability to identify an object despite both having knowledge of that object and functional sensory input. For example, a patient with posterior cortical atrophy who characteristically has visual agnosia, will be unable to identify a hammer, even though they are able to see it and are able to describe its function.

Agnosia in literature

• The Man who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by the Anglo-American neurologist Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) 

See also

• Gerstmann syndrome

Siehe auch:

• posterior cortical atrophy
• Gerstmann-Syndrom
• visuelle Agnosie

und weiter:

• Angularis-Syndrom
• visual agnosia