{"id":2512,"date":"2014-05-27T11:25:56","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2017-09-04T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T12:00:00","slug":"wife-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paperstone.co.uk\/News\/articles\/wife-hat","title":{"rendered":"Neurological Hat Stand Blues – When Your Wife’s Head is a Hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A hat and coat stand is a useful addition to any office (and we sell them here<\/a> at paperstone.co.uk<\/a>) \u2013 but did you hear about the man who mistook his wife for a hat stand?<\/p>\n

The man was suffering from a neurological condition called visual agnosia, so his brain was unable to process visual information properly.<\/p>\n

His eyes were fine, but there was damage to part of brain called the occipital lobe (or possibly the temporal lobe- both parts of the brain are involved in how we make sense of our visual world).<\/p>\n

The poor man could only focus on one part of the face at a time. So if he looked at a nose, he could not see the eyes or mouth.<\/p>\n

The man (a patient studied by the famous neurologist, Oliver Sacks) was looking at the top of his wife\u2019s head, but could not see her whole head.<\/p>\n

This led him to believe he was looking at a hat stand, and he grabbed his wife\u2019s head (which he thought was a hat) and tried to put it on.<\/p>\n

The story has become very well known in medical literature and is featured in The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks, a collection of stories about neurological patients. The tragic story has also been made into an opera.<\/p>\n

Luckily, when the man focused on his wife\u2019s eyes and nose, he was finally able to recognise her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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