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A case study is reported on a left posterior cerebrovascular accident involving
the infracalcarine cortex. The patient (HG) exhibited a marked color anomia
and picture naming deficit (photograph anomia) without alexia. However, objects
were named successfully from either visual or tactile inspection. Despite successful
object categorization in several tasks, it is argued that HG's picture naming
deficit is dependent on a disorder of recognition (access to the stored structural
descriptions for objects). A similar functional impairment can account for HG's
impaired color naming. The site of HG's cortical damage implies that recognition
disorders can result from a unilateral left-sided lesion.