Brain story. Visual agnosia.

A traffic accident in 1988 has left Kevin Chappell '83 with a rare brain injury, visual agnosia, that is teaching scientists about how humans see and identify objects. Since his accident, Kevin's mind functions in such a unique way that he's responsible for remapping the medical world's knowledge of the workings of the human brain. He cannot look at an object and recognize it, the world appears as a series of blobs but he can imagine perfectly what objects look like, and then draw them. Shown those same drawings, he'd have no idea what they were.
Kevin is to be a major subject in a BBC documentary about the peculiarities of the human brain. ("The strange world of Kevin Chappell" The Ottawa Citizen)

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Brain
• story.
• Visual
• agnosia.
• Kevin
• Chappell

[shellywhelan]

why is the title in english if the video isnt in english . so annoying

[gredangeo]

english subtitles please.

[MacOsXray]

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[lcestnick]

Look up Dr. Laurie Cestnick Harvard University for a video about what happens after stroke and what to do about it. Hope this helps!

[1RadicalOne]

Look up "Brain Damage affecting perception". This comes from Part 3 of the BBC Documentary "Brain Story".

[adiousir]

i had a brief experience of something similar when i ate a large dose of space cake; my vision only showed me a flat picture like a collage. very disturbing.

[renataguchilosimoes]

quem poderia traduzir para o inglês ?

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