title: Agnosia.
abstract: Object recognition can break down in a variety of ways after brain damage. The resulting different forms of agnosia provide us with useful constraints on theories of normal object recognition. Recent studies suggest a division of labor for the recognition of different types of stimuli (common objects, words, faces, direction of eye gaze, spatial relations among parts of the human body), a high degree of interactivity in the processes underlying object recognition, and the possibility that recognition and awareness of recognition may be neurally distinct.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Farah
mesh_terms: D000377:Agnosia / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans