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simultanagnosia Psychol.|ˌsɪməltənægˈnəʊsɪə|
[ad. G. simultanagnosie (I. Wolpert 1924, in Zentralbl. f. d. Gesamte Neurol. u. Psychiatrie XXXV. 445), f. G. simultan simultaneous + Gr. ἀγνωσία ignorance (cf. agnosia).]
The loss or absence of the ability to experience perceived elements, such as the details of a picture, as components of a whole.
The form simultagnosia appears to have arisen as a misprint (see quot. 1961); and afterwards to have been taken, on the basis of its supposed etymology, to be a term for the ability that is absent in simultanagnosia (see quot. 1970).
1936J. M. Nielsen Agnosia, Apraxia, Aphasia vii. 84 Another term for miscellaneous classification is Simultanagnosia of Wolpert. This is not an agnosia but a psychological loss on a high plane. 1959Brain LXXXII. 437 There may be gross incapacity to combine the elements of the perceptual display into a coherent and integrated whole. To this type of deficit the term ‘simultanagnosia’ is commonly applied. 1961W. R. Brain Speech Disorders 173 The term simultagnosia [ed. 2, 1965: simultanagnosia] was coined by Wolpert to describe a condition in which the patient, looking at pictures which exhibited action, failed to recognize the meaning of the whole, while the details were correctly appreciated. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia ix. 58 He observed a veritable simultagnosia, that is, an inability to grasp a meaning of a picture as a whole. 1970Hinsie & Campbell Psychiatric Dict. (ed. 4) 701/2 Simultagnosia, inability to describe the action represented in a picture. Ibid. 702/1 Simultanagnosia is the lack of, or any disability in, such simultaneous form perception, and is suggestive of a lesion in the anterior part of the left occipital lobe. |