News tagged with visual agnosia
Brain's object recognition system activated by touch alone
Portions of the brain that activate when people view pictures of objects compared to scrambled images can also be activated by touch alone, confirms a new report published online on May 28th in Current Biology.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 28, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists uncover neural mechanisms of object recognition
Certain brain injuries can cause people to lose the ability to visually recognize objects — for example, confusing a harmonica for a cash register.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 13, 2011 |
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The time it takes to reassemble the world
A few glimpses are enough to perceive a seamless and richly detailed visual world. But instead of "photographic snapshots”, information about the color, shape and motion of an object is pulled apart and sent ...
Jan 24, 2007 |
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