Visual Agnosia: Seeing Without Recognition
Have you ever found yourself struggling to understand an image without being able to? Have you tried perhaps to find some similarity between what you see and some well-known object, in an attempt to make sense of that image that you had never seen before? You may have experienced this sensation for a moment, for example, when looking at a magnetic resonance or an ultrasound image for the first time; or when looking at an abstract painting whose title induces you to strive towards recognizing a specific object in it.
