Oliver Sacks Documented a Patient That Was Unable to Distinguish

question 33

Multiple Choice

Oliver Sacks documented a patient that was unable to distinguish between living and nonliving things. Such a deficit likely resulted from damage to the _____.

• A) frontal lobe
• B) inferior parietal cortex
• C) visual cortex
• D) inferior temporal cortex

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