Associative Agnosia Video

In the clip we see an associative agnosic attempting to recognize objects through touching/smelling vs. seeing. For the objects he sees but does not recognize, his hands demonstrate wonderful implicit awareness of how to manually interact with the object, based on representations in the "how" visual pathway.

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Science & Technology

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[PauleQueenie]

abstract or real oject did not make much difference in the ability this patient had in visual recognition. Good thing the livings have 5 senses to compensate every now and then. Also as students need to learn new things, people tends to rely primarily on either visual, auditory recognition and memory which I suppose leads to have the parts of the brain (visual or auditory pathways) more developped so more minor insult to the brain to the less developped part of the brain would be more obvious.

[pharos1]

@TheMightyHarihar yes but the guy is evidently an english speaker.

[TheMightyHarihar]

Doesn't it also depend on the language of the native speaker. You can't just say X is an apple etc, it's an apple in ENGLISH. You need the distinction for other languages.

[katiekawaii]

I absolutely love this guy! "We had to work a while on that one." "No shit!" He's great.

[MrSeanabel]

associative agnostics can copy and describe an object like an apple perfectly, yet cannot tell you what it is. Thats why he said it was a candle, yet when he smelled it (receiving more sensory information) he said it was a crayon, but he is still unsure what it is

[rahrahritaa]

wow... i don't understand..

[Kiljoy616]

truly fascinating.

[Gigatone00]

@Gigatone00 ^ noob

[LadroDiTorte]

"no shit"

[stonerj0e]

a pipe ? pack it up !!