Visual Agnosia

Visual agnosia is an umbrella term for impaired visual recognition despite intact sensory vision.

Two flavours

• Apperceptive agnosia: trouble forming a clear perceptual representation; can’t assemble the percept
• Associative agnosia: can copy or match objects (percept is there) but can’t link to meaning

Related

• Prosopagnosia: impaired face recognition specifically
• Capgras Syndrome: recognition intact but the emotional signal is gone