A Person with a Visual Agnosia Has Difficulty in Recognizing

question 50

Multiple Choice

A person with a visual agnosia has difficulty in recognizing drawings of familiar objects, such as an apple. If she were asked to imagine an apple rather than to inspect a picture of an apple, you would expect to find that

• A)she can generate visual images normally because agnosia does not affect internally generated information.
• B)she has great difficulty in generating visual images as well as visual perception because the two skills share common brain regions.
• C)she can generate visual images correctly and easily, but she cannot recognize them because of a memory deficit.
• D)she has great difficulty with generating images of faces but not other kinds of objects.

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