11. Agnosia occurs because of failure to re-encode melodic information properly.12. In addition the occipitoparietal pathway is sometimes damaged in apperceptive agnosia patients. 13. Associative music agnosia reflects an impaired representational system which disrupts music recognition. 14. Individuals diagnosed with agnosia , may not be able to perform mental reasoning. 15. Using verbal descriptions may be helpful for individuals with certain types of agnosia . 16. Tactile agnosia observations are rare and case-specific. 17. Interpretive or receptive agnosia ( amusia ) is an inability to understand music. 18. Lev Vygotsky published an important review of visual agnosia . 19. Alternate cues may be particularly useful to an individual with environmental agnosia or prosopagnosia. 20. Those with apperceptive agnosia , however, have difficultly copying geometric shapes and letters.
