Baumann Christian
Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen, Germany.
J Hist Neurosci. 2011 Jan;20(1):58-64. doi: 10.1080/09647041003798349.
This article briefly reports on three early contributions to the understanding of visual agnosia as a syndrome sui generis. The authors of the respective papers worked in different fields such as physiology, ophthalmology, and neurology, and, although they were not in direct contact with each other, their results converged upon a consistent view of a nervous disorder that they called psychic blindness.
