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1
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The inability to recognize faces in the absence of other visual agnosia

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Prosopagnosia

2
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What is facial expression used for?

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Reinforce/alter the meaning of verbal utterances

3
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Right hemisphere controls the _____ side of the face

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Left

4
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How would damage to the right hemisphere affect the production of facial expression?

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Limits expressivity to the left side of the face, flat affect, reduced facial expression

5
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Includes stress, timbre, pitch, tempo of speech; infuses words with emotion

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Prosody

6
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What are some prosody deficits if there is RHD?

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Unable to identify emotions associated with utterances, will have literal interpretations to language

7
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Ability to take previous knowledge and experience and apply it effectively to the interpretation of small details

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Inference

8
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What are some inference deficits if there is RHD?

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Inability to read facial expressions may be due to inability to infer meaning of facial expression

9
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The exchange of communicative information from speaker to listener

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Discourse

10
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What are some discourse deficits if there is RHD?

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Difficulty with turn-taking, topic maintenance, lack of sensitivity to shared knowledge

11
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Inability to visually perceive multiple details at one time, often due to lesion at parietal-occipital area

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Simultagnosia

12
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What are some characteristics of simultagnosia?

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Individuals may perseverate on details of an object but cannot perceive object as a whole; could possibly make an accurate guess on the object based on distinctive features

13
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Rare loss of color vision due to trauma or damage to the cortex

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Cerebral achromatopsia

14
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Inability to visually perceive multiple details at one time, often due to lesion at parietal-occipital area

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Neglect

15
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The individual is unable to perceive their own body parts as being part of

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Somatophrenia