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| - Main article: Agnosia Autotopagnosia from the Greek a and
gnosis, meaning “without knowledge”, and topos, meaning "place",
autotopagnosia virtually translates to the “lack of knowledge
about one’s own space,” and is clinically described as such.
Autotopagnosia is a form of both agnosia and body image
disturbances, and is characterized by an inability to localize
and orient different parts of the body. The psychoneurological
disorder has also been referred to as "body-image agnosia" or
"somatotopagnosia." Somatotopagnosia has been argued to be a
better suited term to describe the condition. While
autotopagnosia emphasizes the deficiencies in localizing only
one's own body parts and orientation, somatotopagnosia also
considers the inability to orient and recognize the body parts
of others or representations of the body (e.g., manikins,
diagrams). Typically, the cause of autotopagnosia