Mirror Agnosia
Mirror Agnosia
Mirror agnosia, or the "looking glass syndrome", is a phenomenon observed in patients with left hemispatial neglect as a result of right parietal lobe lesions. There is inability to point to objects seen in a mirror, with repeated reaching "into" the mirror even when the actual location of the target is shown. In a milder form, known as "mirror ataxia", patients reach in the direction of the object but with increased errors of reach and grasp, suggesting that visual information is not adequately transformed into a body-centered frame of reference.
References
Binkofski F, Buccino G, Dohle C, Seitz RJ, Freund H-J. Mirror agnosia and mirror ataxia constitute different parietal lobe disorders. Annals of Neurology 1999; 46: 51-61
Ramachandran VS, Altschuler EL, Hillyer S. Mirror agnosia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 1997; 264: 645-647
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