Damage to Parietal and Temporal Lobes

Visual Neglect is classified as:

Damage to the right parietal lobe

Symptoms of Visual Neglect

• difficulty recognizing objects on left side of visual field

Visual Neglect is a deficit in

Attention, Perception is fine

Optic Ataxia is classified as

lesions to the parietal lobe

Optic Ataxia symptoms

• impaired visual guidance, leading to deficid in reaching

• can’t orient correctly

• A sympton of balin’t syndrome

• can recognize objects, but cannot visually guide hand

Balint’s syndrome classified as

bilateral parietal lobe damage

Balint’s syndrome symptoms

• attention is limited to one object at a time

• difficulties reading

Balint’s syndrom: Visual perception…

intact (can describe objects)

Associative Agnosia has:

• Normal Perceptual Processing

• Deficit in visual recognition

Associative Agnosia

• Can’t recognize image, but can copy it

Apperceptive Agnosia

• Can't recognize objects or shapes, but can perceive them. Associate + you can’t copy the object

• Deficit in perceptual processing