Brain damage may sometimes cause specific impairments in human behaviour. One rare impairment is the failure to recognize everyday objects by sight, a problem which is termed "visual agnosia". In this book, the authors discuss the case of a patient,

Glyn W. Humphreys, M. Jane Riddoch

Visual object recognition and its disorders; the history of a case of visual agnosia; the process of visual object recognition; some experimental investigations; other visual problems in agnosic patients; some conclusions about agnosia and visual recognition; living with agnosia.