Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us About Normal Vision

by Martha J. Farah

Brain damage can lead to selective problems with visual perception, including visual agnosia—the inability to recognize objects even though elementary visual functions remain unimpaired. Visual Agnosia reviews all the recent records of this disorder, places these 100 or so case studies in the general context of current neuroscience, and draws relevant conclusions about the organization of normal visual processing.

Genres: Psychology

202 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 1990

About the author

Martha J. Farah, PhD. is a cognitive neuroscience researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. She has worked on a wide range of subjects such as semantic memory, mental imagery, reading, face recognition and attention, and the effects of childhood poverty on brain development.

She has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University and has taught at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Neuroscience & Society.