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Mirror Agnosia
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MIRROR AGNOSIA
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Mirror agnosia is the inability to differentiate
between real and reflected objects, to mentally rotate objects, and to
perform line orientation tasks.
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It
results from lesions of either parietal lobe near
the posterior angular gyrus/superior temporal gyrus (the
temporo-parieto-occipital) junction, and affects both sides of the
body
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Patients with mirror agnosia are aware of the
mirror, but cannot correct their behavior even after they have been
shown that the real location of the object; they always believe the
object to be behind or in the mirror itself and reach for it
accordingly.
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Retinotopic and body-centered coordinate mapping
controlled by the parietal lobe is thought to be the underlying cause
of this disorder.
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