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agnosia

n. The inability to recognize objects by use of the senses.

WordNet
agnosia

n. inability to recognize objects by use of the senses

Wikipedia
Agnosía

Agnosia is a Spanish baroque retro-futuristic thriller directed by Eugenio Mira and written by Antonio Trashorras.

Agnosia (moth)

Agnosia is a genus of moths in the Sphingidae family.

Usage examples of "agnosia".

All adequate understanding of aphasia or agnosia would, he believed, require a new, more sophisticated science.

Our cognitive sciences are themselves suffering from an agnosia essentially similar to Dr P.

I found that there is, in fact, a rather extensive literature on visual agnosia in general, and prosopagnosia in particular.

He went to the bathroom to wash his hands, but this time he did not ask the mirror, metaphysically, What can this be, he had recovered his scientific outlook, the fact that agnosia and amaurosis are identified and defined with great precision in books and in practice, did not preclude the appearance of variations, mutations, if the word is appropriate, and that day seemed to have arrived.

He checked the indexes and methodically began reading everything he could find about agnosia and amaurosis, with the uncomfortable impression of being an intruder in a field beyond his competence, the mysterious terrain of neurosurgery, about which he only had the vaguest notion.

If it were a case of agnosia, the patient would now be seeing what he had always seen, that is to say, there would have been no diminution of his visual powers, his brain would simply have been incapable of recognising a chair wherever there happened to be a chair, in other words, he would continue to react correctly to the luminous stimuli leading to the optic nerve, but, to use simple terms within the grasp of the layman, he would have lost the capacity to know what he knew and, moreover, to express it.

There was aphasia, loss of speech, alexia, loss of reading, agraphia, loss of writing, and agnosia, loss of recognition.

The condition is what we call an associative agnosia, rather than an apperceptive one.

The most important studies of such agnosias, and of visual processing in general, are now being undertaken by A.

In this way neurologists were able to induce a wide variety of agnosias.

A few NCA membersare adopting both agnosias, as a form of protest, but no one expects many people will follow their example.

The patchy visual and auditory agnosia of the previous day had lessened but not entirely disappeared, and he was still experiencing difficulty, plagued by strange, abstract sensations of duality.