{"id":76,"date":"2006-10-29T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/what-you-didnt-know-about-my-agnosia-post\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T12:17:00","slug":"what-you-didnt-know-about-my-agnosia-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/what-you-didnt-know-about-my-agnosia-post\/","title":{"rendered":"What you didn’t know about my agnosia post…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at <\/span>lint<\/a>, I just posted a <\/span>piece which used the rather grand term “software agnosia”<\/a>. I cut out a bit of the definition of agnosia, because it didn’t really move things forward. I kind of liked it, so here it is:<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re interested in “agnosia as bittersweet comedy”, check out Oliver Sacks’<\/span> The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat<\/a>. Dr P had visual agnosia due to brain damage. He could see objects but not recognise them. When he wanted to wear his hat, he reached for the thing he thought was most “hat-like”. In this case, it was his wife’s head.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Or, you could try the the<\/span> Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form<\/a>:
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He sees things \u2014 just what, he can’t place.
\nThat’s an object <\/span>agnosia<\/b> case.
\nBut with <\/span>prosopagnosia<\/b>,
\nThis person who knows ya
\nWon’t recognize you by your face.
\n<\/span><\/a>contributed by Virge<\/a>
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Over at lint, I just posted a piece which used the rather grand term “software agnosia”. I cut out a bit of the definition of agnosia, because it didn’t really move things forward. I kind of liked it, so here it is: If you’re interested in “agnosia as bittersweet comedy”, check out Oliver Sacks’ The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3BXdd-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}