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An individual who could trace a picture of a bicycle with his or her finger but could not recognize it as a bicycle is most likely to have sustained damage to the ________. An individual who could trace a picture of a bicycle with his or her finger but could not recognize it as a bicycle is most likely to have sustained damage to the ________. primary visual cortex calcarine cortex visual association area lateral geniculate body

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An individual who could trace a picture of a bicycle with his or her finger but could not recognize it as a bicycle is most likely to have sustained damage to the visual association area.

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Visual association or association cortex area is the cortical area present in between the auditory, visual, somatosensory cortices.

All these cortices integrate through sensory, gustatory, visual, and auditory impulses. This complete sensory integration aids to recognize shapes, form, image, texture of various objects and their interrelation through higher-order association.

Damage to this visual association areas cause associative visual agnosia. With this condition, a person although is able to see or feel an object cannot recognize the object due to impairment of attention/recognition skill, intelligence.

A visually agnostic person, although can see, cannot identify an object by his/her sight; but can feel the object through touch, smell, or sound.

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