Altered images for brain damage patients

Imagine looking at a dog – and not recognising it as a dog. What if you looked at a sheep or a cow, and didn’t know what it was?

And what if you looked at the pictures above – and thought the “babex” and “bunnyphant” might be real?

That is the situation for some people with visual agnosia.

People with the condition can have trouble recognising animals, faces or objects.

Now a series of films entitled “Eye See” is being planned to allow everyone to see the world as visual aphasics see it. BBC