experienced many cognitive issues, mood swings, poor memory, and temper outbursts. C.K. also had motor weakness on the left side and a left homonymous hemianopia. He recovered well, retaining normal intelligence and normal visual acuity. He was able to complete a masters degree in history, later working as a manager at a large corporation. Although his recovery was successful in other areas of cognition, C.K. still struggles to make sense of the visual world. Associative visual agnosia
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed bilateral thinning of C.K.s occipital lobe which resulted in associative visual agnosia. Patients that have visual agnosia are unable to identify visually presented objects. They can identify these objects through other modalities such as touch but if presented visually, they are unable to. Associative agnosic patients cannot create a detailed representation of the visual world in their brains, they can only perceive elements of whole objects. They also cannot form associations between objects or assign meaning to objects.C.K. makes many mistakes when trying to identify objects. For example, he called an abacus "skewers on a kebab" and a badminton racquet a "fencers mask". A dart was a "feather duster" and a protractor was mistaken for a "cockpit". Despite this impairment in visual object recognition, C.K. retained many abilities such as drawing, visual imagery, and internal imagery. As a native of England, he was tasked with drawing England, marking London and where he was born. His accurate drawing of England is just one example of his excellent drawing abilities.As aforementioned, C.K.
This was the first evidence for a double dissociation between face and object processing suggesting a face-specific processing system. In popular culture
A famous report on this condition is the title essay of Oliver Sacks book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. The murder suspect in the Picket Fences episode "Strangers" supposedly had agnosia. The patient in the House episode "Adverse Events" had agnosia. In the graphic novel Preacher, the character Lorie has an extreme version of agnosia resulting from being born with a single eye. For example, she perceives Arseface, a man with severe facial deformities, as resembling a young James Dean. Val Kilmers character has visual agnosia in the film At First Sight. In "Folie à Deux", a fifth-season episode of The X-Files, Mulder succumbs to the same belief as telemarketer Gary Lambert, that his boss Greg Pincus is a monster who disguises his true appearance by means of hypnosis. Scully, although believing this notion preposterous, suggests that what Mulder describes is analogous to an induced visual agnosia. The short story "Liking What You See: A Documentary" by Ted Chiang examines the cultural effects of a noninvasive medical procedure that induces a visual agnosia toward physical beauty. In the manga and anime Odd Taxi, the main character Odokawa has agnosia, which causes him to see himself and everyone around him as an animal. See also
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Further reading
Cant JD, Goodale MA (March 2007). "Attention to form or surface properties modulates different regions of human occipitotemporal cortex". Cereb. Cortex. 17 (3): 713–31. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhk022. PMID 16648452.