visual agraphia

an impaired ability to write resulting from a failure to recognize letters, numbers, or words. The condition is caused by lesions in the occipitoparietal area of the brain. See agraphia.

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July 27th 2024

distributional redundancy

in psychological aesthetics, the development of uncertainty in an artistic pattern by making some elements occur more frequently than others. Distributional redundancy is one of two kinds of internal restraint in pattern variation, the other being correlational redundancy, in which certain combinations of elements are made to occur more frequently than others.