"Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct
We report the clinical profile and investigation of K, a patient suffering from agnosia for the concept of "mirrors". Normal people rarely confuse a mirror image for the real image. Our patient ′K′ has intact attention, memory and language with a left visual neglect w...
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| author | Menon Bijoy Shanbhogue K Mutharasu C Gopinathan S Balasubramanian S Chandramohan Kingsly Jebasingh Jawahar M |
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| description | We report the clinical profile and investigation of K, a patient suffering from agnosia for the concept of "mirrors". Normal people rarely confuse a mirror image for the real image. Our patient ′K′ has intact attention, memory and language with a left visual neglect with left hemianopia. When shown an object on his left with a mirror kept sagitally on his right, K grabs for the reflection and even gropes behind the mirror for it. Yet, when shown the mirror alone, he is able to tell that it is a mirror. Thus the concept of a ′mirror′ is lost in the experimental paradigm. An explanation for mirror ′agnosia′ is provided and recent controversies in the analysis of visuospatial functions in humans is highlighted. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25dda52d659e46c0a9f9adeda08eafc92022-12-22T02:54:40ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsAnnals of Indian Academy of Neurology0972-23272006-01-0194233235"Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarctMenon BijoyShanbhogue KMutharasu CGopinathan SBalasubramanian SChandramohanKingsly JebasinghJawahar MWe report the clinical profile and investigation of K, a patient suffering from agnosia for the concept of "mirrors". Normal people rarely confuse a mirror image for the real image. Our patient ′K′ has intact attention, memory and language with a left visual neglect with left hemianopia. When shown an object on his left with a mirror kept sagitally on his right, K grabs for the reflection and even gropes behind the mirror for it. Yet, when shown the mirror alone, he is able to tell that it is a mirror. Thus the concept of a ′mirror′ is lost in the experimental paradigm. An explanation for mirror ′agnosia′ is provided and recent controversies in the analysis of visuospatial functions in humans is highlighted.http://www.bioline.org.br/request?06057Mirror agnosianeglect |
| spellingShingle | Menon Bijoy Shanbhogue K Mutharasu C Gopinathan S Balasubramanian S Chandramohan Kingsly Jebasingh Jawahar M "Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology Mirror agnosia neglect |
| title | "Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct |
| title_full | "Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct |
| title_fullStr | "Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct |
| title_full_unstemmed | "Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct |
| title_short | "Mirror agnosia" in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct |
| title_sort | mirror agnosia in a patient with right occipitotemporal infarct |
| topic | Mirror agnosia neglect |
| url | http://www.bioline.org.br/request?06057 |
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