simultagnosia

A disorder presenting similar symptoms is simultagnosia or Balint's syndrome (Balint was an earlier 20th century German neurologist).

The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

Appearances would suggest that the first kind of synthesis continues to be available to dysexecutive and simultagnosia patients: they continue to be conscious of individual objects, events, etc.

The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

In the second group, schizophrenia of the severe kind we sketched, dysexecutive disorder, and simultagnosia, it is more natural to think that unified consciousness has been damaged or even destroyed.

The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

What is common to dysexecutive disorder, Trevarthen's cases, and simultagnosia is that subjects seem not to be conscious of even two objects in a single conscious state.

The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

There are of course many different theories about what is going on in the conditions we have just sketched, severe schizophrenia, dysexecutive syndrome, simultagnosia and Balint's syndrome.

The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006

For severe schizophrenia, dysexecutive syndrome, simultagnosia, and Balint's syndrome ” the cases where consciousness seems to be more shattered than split ” the distinction of Kant's that we introduced in

The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006