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  2. Agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Is the inability to recognize familiar voices, even though the hearer can understand the words used. [13] Prosopagnosia: Also known as faceblindness and facial agnosia: Patients cannot consciously recognize familiar faces, sometimes even including their own. This is often misperceived as an inability to remember names. Pure alexia

  3. Prosopagnosia - Wikipedia

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    Prosopagnosia, [2] also known as face blindness, [3] is a cognitive disorder of face perception in which the ability to recognize familiar faces, including one's own face (self-recognition), is impaired, while other aspects of visual processing (e.g., object discrimination) and intellectual functioning (e.g., decision-making) remain intact.

  4. Visual agnosia - Wikipedia

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    Val Kilmer's character has visual agnosia in the film At First Sight. In "Folie à Deux", a fifth-season episode of The X-Files , Mulder succumbs to the same belief as telemarketer Gary Lambert, that his boss Greg Pincus is a monster who disguises his true appearance by means of hypnosis .

  5. Inattentional blindness - Wikipedia

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    The following criteria are required to classify an event as an inattentional blindness episode: 1) the observer must fail to notice a visual object or event, 2) the object or event must be fully visible, 3) observers must be able to readily identify the object if they are consciously perceiving it, [3] and 4) the event must be unexpected and the failure to see the object or event must be due ...

  6. Barber's pole - Wikipedia

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    A "barber's pole" with a helical stripe is a familiar sight, and is used as a secondary metaphor to describe objects in many other contexts. For example, if the shaft or tower of a lighthouse has been painted with a helical stripe as a daymark , the lighthouse could be described as having been painted in "barber's pole" colors.

  7. Have you seen a 5-foot-5 emu running around? A Puyallup ... - AOL

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    It’s also apparent that emus, unlike cats or dogs, aren’t a familiar sight for everybody. A neighbor reported to Cassidy that she thought she saw the lost animal in a pond.

  8. Depth perception - Wikipedia

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    In spatial vision, the horizontal line of sight can play a role. In the picture taken from the window of a house, the horizontal line of sight is at the level of the second floor (yellow line). Below this line, the further away objects are, the higher up in the visual field they appear. Above the horizontal line of sight, objects that are ...

  9. Visual perception - Wikipedia

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    The resulting perception is also known as vision, sight, or eyesight (adjectives visual, optical, and ocular, respectively). The various physiological components involved in vision are referred to collectively as the visual system , and are the focus of much research in linguistics , psychology , cognitive science , neuroscience , and molecular ...