After suffering from a focal brain injury, a patient has difficulty in recognizing visually presented objects, despite normal acuity and color perception. Notably, she has severe difficulty in judging whether two pictures, each showing a different view, represent the same object. What is the most probable diagnosis?
A) apperceptive agnosia
B) associative agnosia
C) synesthesia
D) prosopagnosia

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Apperceptive agnosia is characterized by difficulty in recognizing objects due to a failure in perceptual processing, which aligns with the patient's symptoms of difficulty in recognizing objects and judging different views of the same object.

After Suffering from a Focal Brain Injury, a Patient Has