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time agnosia

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agnosia /ag·no·sia/ (ag-no´zhah) inability to recognize the import of sensory impressions; the varieties correspond with several senses and are distinguished as auditory (acoustic), gustatory, olfactory, tactile, and visual.
face agnosia , facial agnosia prosopagnosia.
finger agnosia  loss of ability to indicate one's own or another's fingers.
time agnosia  loss of comprehension of the succession and duration of events.
visual agnosia  inability to recognize familiar objects by sight, usually due to a lesion in one of the visual association areas.
time agnosia.
agnosia [ag-no´zhah]
inability to recognize the import of sensory impressions; the varieties correspond with several senses and are distinguished as auditory (acoustic), gustatory, olfactory, tactile, and visual.
finger agnosia loss of ability to indicate one's own or another's fingers.
tactile agnosia inability to recognize familiar objects by touch. See also astereognosis.
time agnosia loss of comprehension of the succession and duration of events.
visual agnosia inability to recognize familiar objects by sight, usually due to a lesion in one of the visual association areas. Called also object blindness and psychic blindness.
visual-spatial agnosia (visuospatial agnosia) lack of the ability to analyze and orient using visual representations and their spatial relationships.
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We can see the relevance of the mechanisms to objective time as manifest in the brain within certain cortical regions, but we cannot tie these (mechanisms) to the subjective feeling of time, as exemplified in the case of individuals suffering from time agnosia : the comprehension of time is altogether lost, although most normal mental processes may still function nevertheless.
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