Deficit in perceiving an object with intact abilities to draw and match visual objects describes which condition?

• A. Prosopagnosia
• B. Visual agnosia
• C. Associative visual agnosia
• D. Apperceptive visual agnosia

Answer: (C)

Perception and meaning can be dissociated in visual recognition. In associative visual agnosia, a person can perceive and reproduce object features well enough to draw or match objects, but cannot access or connect those percepts to the stored knowledge that tells them what the object is or how it’s used. This explains why drawing and visually matching remain intact while recognizing or naming fails—the perceptual representation is intact, but the link to semantic meaning is disrupted. Prosopagnosia is focused on recognizing faces, not general objects. Apperceptive visual agnosia would impair early perceptual processing, so drawing or copying would typically be poor. Therefore, the scenario described best fits associative visual agnosia.