After Suffering from a Focal Brain Injury,a Patient Has Difficulty

question 10

Multiple Choice

After suffering from a focal brain injury,a patient has difficulty in recognizing visually presented objects,despite normal acuity and color perception.Notably,she has severe difficulty in judging whether two pictures,each showing a different view,represent the same object.What is the most probable diagnosis?

• A)Apperceptive agnosia
• B)Associative agnosia
• C)Synesthesia
• D)Prosopagnosia

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