[Visuoverbal disconnection (optical aphasia) for objects, pictures, colors and faces with abstractive alexia].
The case is reported of a patient who, after a left occipital infarction, presented a deficit in naming visually presented objects with neither aphasia, nor perturbation in the perceptive and associative processing of visual informations. This visuo-verbal disconnection was accompanied by disturbance of the semantic function when this was explored via the visual channel. In addition the patient showed an alexia which could be described as an abstraction defect. Finally, the patient showed a deficit in naming colors and faces, without evidence for agnosia. This observation argues in favor of maintaining a distinction between visual associative agnosia and optic aphasia. It also demonstrates that the naming deficit implies a deficit in extracting semantic values from visual informations such as objects or graphic symbols.
Gil
R
R
Pluchon
C
C
Toullat
G
G
Micheneau
D
D
Rogez
R
R
Lefevre
J P
JP
D000368:Aged; D000377:Agnosia / Q000523:psychology; D000849:Anomia / Q000523:psychology; D001037:Aphasia / Q000523:psychology*; D001245:Association Learning; D002544:Cerebral Infarction / Q000523:psychology; D003118:Color Perception; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D004411:Dyslexia, Acquired / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face; D005556:Form Perception; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012660:Semantics; D014796:Visual Perception
Disconnexion visuo-verbale (aphasie optique) pour les objets les images, les couleurs et les visages avec alexie "abstractive".