A CASE OF VISUAL AGNOSIA
DISORDERS OF VISUAL RECOGNITION
Early Attempts at Understanding
Partial Cortical Blindness
Apperceptive Agnosia
Associative Agnosia
Summary of the Classical View of Visual Agnosia
PROBLEMS WITH THE CLASSICAL MODEL
Perceptual Impairment in Associative Agnosia
Significance of the Apperceptive-Associative Distinction
Perceptual Impairment in Prosopagnosia and Pure Alexia
The Problem of Category-Specific Impairments in Visual Recognition
THEORIES OF VISUAL AGNOSIA
Disconnection Model
Symbolic Search Model
Massively Parallel Constraint-Satisfaction Models of Object Recognition
A Neurobiologically Based Conceptualization of Visual Agnosia
RESTORATION OF SIGHT IN ADULTHOOD AFTER EARLY ONSET OF BLINDNESS
SUMMARY