Kunita Has Recently Received Damage to the Corpus Callosum and the Left

question 56

Multiple Choice

Kunita has recently received damage to the corpus callosum and the left occipital lobe of her brain.This damage will most likely cause ____.

• A) Wernicke's aphasia.
• B) anosognosia
• C) alexia without agraphia
• D) prosopagnosia

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