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Inability to identify an object by touch alone. This is an older term for tactile agnosia and is considered to be a higher order or agnostic type of deficit; hence, it should not reflect a disturbance of elementary somatosensory disturbances, as might be associated with lesions of peripheral nerves or the medial lemniscus “Tactile Agnosia.”
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Mendoza, J.E. (2017). Tactile Asymboly. In: Kreutzer, J., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56782-2_798-2
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