Visual agnosia | Inability to recognize visual objects |
Prosopagnosia | inability to recognize faces |
Simultanagnosia | inability to perceive more than one visual object at a time |
Metamorphopsia | Distorted vision |
Color agnosia | Inability to recognize color |
Color anomia | Inability to name colors |
Visual-Spatial Perception
R-L discrimination | Distinguishing between left and right |
Figure-ground discrimination | the ability to distinguish an object from its surrounding background in a visual scene (can’t tell which object is closer to you) |
Form-constancy discrimination | inability to understand changes in form |
Position in space dysfunction | difficulty perceiving or understanding the spatial orientation of objects or one's own body in space |
Topographical disorientation | not being able to visual a map |
Depth Perception dysfunction | determining how close or far objects are |
Tactile Perception
Tactile agnosia | Inability to recognize objects by touch |
Astereognosis | inability to recognize objects by touch |
Ahylognosia | inability to identify materials by touch |
2 point discrimination | inability to sense when 2 points are touching you |
Agraphesthesia | inability recognize letters or numbers drawn on the skin |
Double simultaneous extinction | inability to feel 2 points of contact on opposite sides of body |
Abarognosis | Inability to determine the weight of something |
Atopognesia | inability to identify location of touch |
Body-Schema-Perceptual Disorder
Finger Agnosia | not able to identify which finger is being touched |
Unilateral neglect | a lack of awareness or attention to stimuli on one side of the body or space |
Anosognosia | unaware of their own deficits or disabilities |
Extinction of simultaneous stimulation | fail to detect a stimulus on one side of the body when presented simultaneously with another stimulus on the opposite side |
Language Perception
Receptive Aphasia | someone can say words and sentences, but they often don't make complete sense |
Expressive Aphasia | partial loss of the ability to produce language, although comprehension generally remains intact. |
Alexia/ dyslexia | Not able to read |
Asymbolia | inability to understand or interpret the significance of symbols |
Aprosodia | inability to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody (the variations in pitch, rhythm, and stress in speech). |
Anomia | difficulty in spontaneously finding words during conversation or in naming tasks |
Agrammatism | difficulty using basic grammar and syntax |
Agraphia | an impairment or loss of a previous ability to write |
Acalculia | the inability to process numbers and perform calculations |
In what way does the brain lesion causing aphasia differ from most other perceptual disorders?
Unlike most other perceptual disorders, which mainly affect the ability to interpret sensory information (such as vision or hearing), aphasia, a language disorder caused by brain damage, specifically affects language processing and expression (understanding and producing language).
Motor Planning Perception
Ideational apraxia | Inability to know what motor plan to access |
Ideomotor apraxia I | Inability to access the correct motor plan |
Ideomotor apraxia II | inability to execute the motor plan |
Dressing Apraxia | inability to perform the complex task of dressing |
2 and 3 dimensional constructional apraxia | Inability to copy 2-dimensional (2D) drawings or 3D assemblies |