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Stranger in the Mirror
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Program Overview
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Can you imagine having healthy, normal eyes and still not being able
to recognize your family and friends? This is the problem faced by
people with visual agnosia, a disorder caused by an injury to the
part of the brain that processes images from the eyes. People with
visual agnosia can no longer look at common objects and immediately
know what they are. By studying an image or an object for a period
of time they can often figure out what it is, but in order to do so
they must also depend on clues from their other senses. For people
with visual agnosia, identifying an object is like a mystery story
where bits and pieces of evidence slowly come to light.
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