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Introduction to visual recognition disorders, including agnosia, anomia, prosopagnosia, apperceptive agnosia, associative agnosia, category specific agnosia, and topographic agnosia. Discussion of how these relate to theories of pattern recognition and introduction of the ventral stream (aka the what pathway). Finally, a quick introduction to Navon figures and local versus global processing. The seminal work on this and a book everyone should have on their shelf is Visual Agnosia by Martha Farah, amzn.to/3VWGt4h as well as The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - an entertaining and very educational read amzn.to/3FOxrk8
Introduction to visual recognition disorders, including agnosia, anomia, prosopagnosia, apperceptive agnosia, associative agnosia, category specific agnosia, and topographic agnosia. Discussion of how these relate to theories of pattern recognition and introduction of the ventral stream (aka the what pathway). Finally, a quick introduction to Navon figures and local versus global processing. The seminal work on this and a book everyone should have on their shelf is Visual Agnosia by Martha Farah, amzn.to/3VWGt4h as well as The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - an entertaining and very educational read amzn.to/3FOxrk8
