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 a form of visual agnosia where there is impairment in recognizing objects due to a deficit in early visual processing, such as perception and integration of visual features. The patient's difficulty in judging whether two pictures represent the same object indicates a deficit in recognizing objects at a basic level, which is consistent with apperceptive agnosia. Associative agnosia, on the other hand, is characterized by difficulty in recognizing objects despite intact perception, but the patient usually has no difficulty in matching or identifying objects from different views. Synesthesia is a neurological condition where one sensory experience (e.g., color) is involuntarily perceived in response to another sensory experience (e.g., sound), and it is not related to agnosia. Prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, is a specific type of agnosia where the patient has difficulty in recognizing familiar faces, but they usually have no problem recognizing objects.

After Suffering from a Focal Brain Injury,a Patient Has Difficulty