Editing Micropsia (section)

==Signs and symptoms==
Micropsia causes affected individuals to perceive objects as being smaller or more distant than they actually are.<ref name="Micropsia Following Right Temporo-Parietal Infarction">{{cite journal | vauthors = Ceriani F, Gentileschi V, Muggia S, Spinnler H | title = Seeing objects smaller than they are: micropsia following right temporo-parietal infarction | journal = Cortex; A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior | volume = 34 | issue = 1 | pages = 131–8 | date = February 1998 | pmid = 9533999 | doi = 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70742-1 | s2cid = 4480369 }}</ref>

The majority of individuals with micropsia are aware that their perceptions do not mimic reality. Many can imagine the actual sizes of objects and distances between objects. It is common for patients with micropsia to be able to indicate true size and distance despite their inability to perceive objects as they actually are. One specific patient was able to indicate the dimensions of specific objects with her hands. She was also able to estimate the distances between two objects and between an object and herself. She succeeded in indicating horizontal, vertical, and 45 degree positions and did not find it difficult to search for an object in a cluttered drawer, indicating that her figure-ground discrimination was intact despite having micropsia.<ref name="Micropsia Following Right Temporo-Parietal Infarction"/>

Individuals experiencing hemimicropsia often complain that objects in their left or right visual field appear to be shrunken or compressed. They may also have difficulty appreciating the symmetry of pictures. When drawing, patients often have a tendency to compensate for their perceptual asymmetry by drawing the left or right half of objects slightly larger than the other. In a case of one person with hemimicropsia asked to draw six symmetrical objects, the size of the picture on the left half was on average 16% larger than the corresponding right half.<ref name="Selective deficit of visual size perception">{{cite journal | vauthors = Cohen L, Gray F, Meyrignac C, Dehaene S, Degos JD | title = Selective deficit of visual size perception: two cases of hemimicropsia | journal = Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry | volume = 57 | issue = 1 | pages = 73–8 | date = January 1994 | pmid = 8301309 | pmc = 485042 | doi = 10.1136/jnnp.57.1.73 }}</ref>