From reading the book 'The man that mistook his wife for a hat' by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who documents the stories of his patients suffering from unusual cases of dememtia.
The book is made up of short stories, I found the first story particularly interesting, it explains how this one patient becomes unaware of the identity of everyday objects and he can only see them as an abstract shape or he explains what their function could be but doesnt actually know what the object is.
In one particular part of the book the patient can't seem to remember what a glove is, when the doctor asks him what the object (glove) is he lists what its functions could be;
- A continuious surface
- Infolded on itself
- Five outpouchings
- A container of some sort
- It would contain its contents
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