A study examining the brain of a person with object agnosia, a defect in the inability to recognize objects, is providing a unique window into the sophisticated brain mechanisms critical for object ...

Agnosia is a rare condition in which an affected individual is unable to recognise and identify objects, persons, sounds, shapes or smells even though the affected sense is not defective and there is ...

Neuroscientists have examined the brain of a person with object agnosia, a deficit in the ability to recognize objects, and have uncovered the neural mechanisms of object recognition. The results ...

As dementia develops, patients are often robbed of their independence due to debilitating confusion. Sometimes agnosia is the cause of disorientation, thwarting patients' perception of people and ...

Prosopagnosia, the disorder that actors Shenaz Treasury and Brad Pitt share, leads to an inability to recognise people’s faces rosopagnosia comes from the Greek words prosopon, which means face, and ...