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A Patient with Visual Agnosia May Be Able to Reach

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A patient with visual agnosia may be able to reach for and grab an object, but unable to tell you what it is. How can this happen?


A) The patient is likely not telling the truth-they know what the object is.
B) There is more than one neural pathway for the processing of visual information.
C) The grasping behaviour was accidental.
D) Activation-synthesis has failed to activate.
E) The patient actually suffers from blindsight.

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