Associative visual agnosia: A case study

Issue title: A New Impulse for Neuropsychology in Europe: The Federation of the European Societies of Neuropsychology

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Charnallet, A.^; | Carbonnel, S. | David and, D. | Moreaud, O.^;

Affiliations: CMRR & Neuropsychologie, Pôle de Psychiatrie et Neurologie, CHU de Grenoble, France | Laboratoire de psychologie et neuro-cognition, (CNRS UMR 5105), Université de Savoie, Chambéry & Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, France

Note: [] Corresponding author: Annik Charnallet, CMRR & Neuropsychologie, Pôle de Psychiatrie et Neurologie, CHU de Grenoble, BP 217, 38043 Grenoble cedex 09, France. Tel.: +33 4 76 76 57 90; Fax: +33 4 76 76 56 31; E-mail: annik.charnallet@ujf-grenoble.fr; ACharnallet@chu-grenoble.fr

Abstract: We report a case of massive associative visual agnosia. In the light of current theories of identification and semantic knowledge organization, a deficit involving both levels of structural description system and visual semantics must be assumed to explain the case. We suggest, in line with a previous case study [1], an alternative account in the framework of (non abstractive) episodic models of memory [4].

Keywords: Associative visual agnosia, semantic memory, visual knowledge, episodic memory

Journal: Behavioural Neurology, vol. 19, no. 1-2, pp. 41-44, 2008