Betty has just drawn a picture of a landscape.After she is finished,her daughter notices that Betty did not draw any objects or finish the scene on the left side of the drawing.Based on this it is likely that Betty has sustained damage to the ___ pathway,leaving her with a disorder known as ___.

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The "where" pathway, also known as the dorsal pathway, is responsible for spatial awareness and processing the position of objects in the environment. The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, so damage to the right where pathway could lead to hemi-neglect, where the person ignores or neglects one side of the environment. This would explain why Betty did not finish the left side of the drawing. Prosopagnosia, on the other hand, is a disorder of face recognition and would not necessarily affect landscape drawing. Therefore, option D is the best choice.

Betty Has Just Drawn a Picture of a Landscape