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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“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
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