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What is Agnosia is caused by lesion in: and explain in detail?
Agnosia is the general term used for the inability to recognize objects by a paicular sensory modality even though the sensory modality itself is intact. Lesions producing these defects are generally in the parietal lobe. Ref: Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology 23rd edition, Chapter 19.