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visual acuity

Sharpness of vision. It is assessed using the Snellen test chart.



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Other patients attempted to reach for the mirror image of the object, and Ramachandran and colleagues named this behavior "mirror agnosia.
When that skin outlines the wrong contours it leads to what Oliver Sacks (1990) called body agnosia, wherein one is so alienated from parts of one's body that they become insensate and/or unacknowledged as one's own.
Unilateral spatial agnosia (inattention) in patients with cerebral lesions.
 
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