Neuroscience perceptual disorders

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