The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a best-selling book about neurological disorders, describes a man with damage to the association cortex who literally mistook his wife for a hat. Just by looking, he could not tell his wife and his hat apart, but he could as soon as his wife spoke. The disturbance of this patient is __________.

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The disturbance of this patient is agnosia, specifically visual agnosia, which is a condition in which a person cannot recognize or make sense of visual information, despite having normal vision. This patient was unable to recognize his wife visually, indicating a specific form of agnosia known as prosopagnosia, which is the inability to recognize familiar faces. The other options given are not relevant to this specific case or type of disorder.

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, a Best-Selling