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noun
- 1. a condition in which a person can see but cannot recognize or interpret visual information, due to a disorder in the parietal lobes.
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Impairment in recognition of visually presented objects
Visual agnosia is an impairment in recognition of visually presented objects. It is not due to a deficit in vision (acuity, visual field, and scanning), language, memory, or intellect. While cortical blindness results from lesions to primary visual cortex, visual agnosia is often due to damage to more anterior cortex such as the posterior occipital and/or temporal lobe(s) in the brain. [2] There a... Wikipedia