Tactile Agnosia
Tactile Agnosia
A selective impairment of object recognition by touch despite (relatively) preserved somatesthetic perception. This is a unilateral disorder resulting from lesions of the contralateral inferior parietal cortex.
References
Reed CL, Caselli RJ, Farah MJ. Tactile agnosia: underlying impairment and implications for normal tactile object recognition. Brain1996; 119: 875-888
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