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COGNITIVE AND PERCEPTUAL DEFICITS FOLLOWING BRAIN DAMAGE: RECOGNIZING
In some cases, patients may have completely intact sensory processes, but they may still fail to recognize objects. The implication here is that the impairment has the effect of either preventing access to the stored knowledge that each individual builds up through a lifetime of different experiences (as is the case for R.R. and H.J.A., described above), or there may be some impairment within the patient's stored knowledge. Again, the situation with disorders of stored knowledge is likely to be complex. For instance, it is possible for patients to lose stored knowledge of what objects look like, but still to know what objects should be used for, or how they associate with other objects. For instance, D.W. reported that a giraffe looked like a horse and that it was coloured black, but also that it lived in Africa and ate leaves from trees (Riddoch and Humphreys, 1992). Contrastingly, patients can also lose access to functional knowledge about objects while having intact 'stored knowledge'. For instance, they may discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar objects, but not know whether a cup and saucer should be classed together and separately from (say) a knife (Riddoch and Humphreys, 1987b). This shows that we probably have a number of different types of stored knowledge about objects (visual, functional, and perhaps many other forms). Also, these different forms of knowledge can be selectively impaired. Disorders of functional knowledge are likely to be particularly disruptive to everyday living, since patients will be impaired at using objects appropriately. Therapy in such cases needs to be addressed to the particular types of knowledge affected. In terms of the physiotherapy, it should be understood that it is possible that a patient fails to dress appropriately because she has lost her functional knowledge of, for example, what a shoe is for. It need not mean that she is simply being difficult!
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