Mirror image agnosia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gnosis is a modality-specific ability to access semantic knowledge of an object or stimulus in the presence of normal perception. Failure of this is agnosia or disorder of recognition. It can be highly selective within a mode. self-images are different from others as none has seen one's own image except in reflection. Failure to recognize this image can be labeled as mirror image agnosia or Prosopagnosia for reflected self-image. Whereas mirror agnosia is a well-recognized situation where the person while looking at reflected images of other objects in the mirror he imagines that the objects are in fact inside the mirror and not outside.

Material and methods

Five patients, four females, and one male presented with failure to recognize reflected self-image, resulti

SUBMITTER: Chandra SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4201793 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature