Visual Agnosia - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • A famous report on this condition is the title essay of Oliver Sacks' book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.
  • The murder suspect in the Picket Fences episode "Strangers" supposedly suffered from agnosia.
  • The patient in the House episode "Adverse Events" suffered from agnosia.
  • Val Kilmer's character suffers from visual agnosia in the film At First Sight.
  • A peculiar type of visual agnosia resulting from experimental brain surgery drives the plot of the 6th volume of Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix series.
  • In Saya no Uta, the protagonist undergoes drastic emergency brain surgery to save his life from a fatal traffic accident that kills his parents. As a side effect of this life-saving surgery, the protagonist is left with a bizarre form of visual agnosia that makes the world appear to him as "warped", where non-organic objects resemble organic structures of putrid flesh and people appear to be monsters to him.
  • In the comic book series Preacher, a one eyed waitress named Lori has visual agnosia.

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