PSYC 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter Reading 15 - Postmidterm - Visual Agnosia - Reubens: Visual Agnosia, Cerebral Achromatopsia, Stimulus Modality
26 Sep 2018
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Reading 15 agnosia bauer and rubens: The first demonstration of agnostic phenomena was not in humans but in dogs with partial bilateral occipital. The first demonstration of agnostic phenome was not in humans but in dogs with partial bilateral occipital lobe excisions. Munk observed that such animals neatly avoided obstacles placed in their paths but failed to recognizie (react appropriately) to objects that previous had frightened or attracted them. Munk attributed the failure to recognize without blindness to a loss of memory images of previous visual experience and term the condition seelenblindheit . The term agnosia was introduced by freud and eventually replaced mind blindness and terms such as asymbolia . Liepmann was the first to clearly distinguish between agnosic and apractic disturbances. Historically, there has been heated debate concerning the underlying neuropsychological mechanism responsible for disturbances in recognition. Interpretation of available cases has varied according to the zeitgeist prevailing at the time.
