page_title: Associative visual agnosia
section_title: Diagnosis
hierarchical_section_title: Associative visual agnosia / Diagnosis
caption_attribution_description: English: Clinical Assessment Criteria in Flowchart Form for Types of Visual Agnosia
context_page_description: Associative visual agnosia is a form of visual agnosia. It is an impairment in recognition or assigning meaning to a stimulus that is accurately perceived and not associated with a generalized deficit in intelligence, memory, language or attention. The disorder appears to be very uncommon in a "pure" or uncomplicated form and is usually accompanied by other complex neuropsychological problems due to the nature of the etiology. Afflicted individuals can accurately distinguish the object, as demonstrated by the ability to draw a picture of it or categorize accurately, yet they are unable to identify the object, its features or its functions.
context_section_description: A recognition disorder is not considered to be agnosia unless there is a lack of aphasia, dementia, or other generalized defect that affects any stage of the object recognition process, such as, deficiencies in intelligence, linguistic ability, memory, attention or sensory perception.  Therefore, individuals must be assessed for language ability, auditory comprehension, fluency, repetition, praxis, and reading and writing.
caption: A Flowchart for Clinical Assessment of Forms of Visual Agnosia
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