| What is visual agnosia? | Disorder where an individual has normal vision but they are impaired in their ability to interpret what they are seeing. |
| Example of visual agnosia? | Can see the apple but but unable to correctly name the apple or even the colour |
| Symptoms of visual agnosia? | -Not able to recongnise the colour of object
-Not able to recongnise object and name them
-Not able to recongnise places familiar to them |
| What is prosopagnosia? | Face-blindness, the inability to recongnise faces even though they can be seen normally, even if they are very familiar like partner/children |
| What must be damaged to get prosopagnosia? | The Fusiform Face Area (FFA) which is near the back of the temporal lobe. |
| Symptoms of prosopagnosia? | -Difficulty identifying people from their face
-Seeing all faces as 'the same'
-Unable to recongnise familiar faces or difficulty matching pictures of faces they don't know. |
