Visual Agnosia The textbook defined visual Agnosia as an impairment in object recognition which can be caused by brain damage. Visual Agnosia is a brain disease that has no cure. In the video, Kevin talked about his issue of visual Agnosia. Kevin can identify colors, faces such as his children’s pictures but can’t be able to locate an object. Kevin plays guitar, he cannot read music but know how to construct music by listening to it and reconnect it with his guitar. Kevin’s visual Agnosia made him to be unable to identify any object he sees but however, he is able to use his memory to pick out some component of the object. Although I have never come across with someone that is suffering from visual agnosia, however, the video makes me realize
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I found out that there are two categories of visual agnosia: Apperceptive which refers to when a person cannot fully process what they see or have difficulty identifying and processing of an object. The other category is associative Agnosia which can be defined as when a person cannot identify an object with their memory. I think Kevin in the video is suffering from Apperceptive visual agnosia because he cannot identify the object but he can pick out some component of the object with his memory. Although currently, visual agnosia has no cure, however, I am hoping that in the future, scientist will find a cure or ways to prevent …show more content…
According to the movie, color vision is not something a person automatically born with, it develops the first three months after a child is born. The child is able to see different colors as an infant and able to categorize the colors even though they haven’t learn any language. The way that people process color and language are congruent. Language can structure how the brain structure the visual world. The right side of human brain process the color categories. In the English world, there are eleven categories of colors, whereas in Nambia, they only have four categories of language which are Borou (Blue, green), Zoozu (dark colors, red, black and purple), Vapa (white and some yellow), Borou (green and blue), and Dumbi (green, red and brown). The people of Nambia community describe color differently. For instance, according to them, the sky is dark and water is
I found out that there are two categories of visual agnosia: Apperceptive which refers to when a person cannot fully process what they see or have difficulty identifying and processing of an object. The other category is associative Agnosia which can be defined as when a person cannot identify an object with their memory. I think Kevin in the video is suffering from Apperceptive visual agnosia because he cannot identify the object but he can pick out some component of the object with his memory. Although currently, visual agnosia has no cure, however, I am hoping that in the future, scientist will find a cure or ways to prevent …show more content…
According to the movie, color vision is not something a person automatically born with, it develops the first three months after a child is born. The child is able to see different colors as an infant and able to categorize the colors even though they haven’t learn any language. The way that people process color and language are congruent. Language can structure how the brain structure the visual world. The right side of human brain process the color categories. In the English world, there are eleven categories of colors, whereas in Nambia, they only have four categories of language which are Borou (Blue, green), Zoozu (dark colors, red, black and purple), Vapa (white and some yellow), Borou (green and blue), and Dumbi (green, red and brown). The people of Nambia community describe color differently. For instance, according to them, the sky is dark and water is