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What aspects of face processing are impaired in developmental prosopagnosia?

Abstract

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a severe impairment in identifying faces that is present from early in life and that occurs despite no apparent brain damage and intact visual and intellectual function. Here, we investigated what aspects of face processing are impaired/spared in developmental prosopagnosia by examining a relatively large group of individuals with DP (n = 8) using an extensive battery of well-established tasks. The tasks …

Authors

Le Grand R; Cooper PA; Mondloch CJ; Lewis TL; Sagiv N; de Gelder B; Maurer D

Journal

Brain and Cognition, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 139–158

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

July 2006

DOI

10.1016/j.bandc.2005.11.005

ISSN

0278-2626