Can we learn from the clinically significant face processing deficits, prosopagnosia and Capgras delusion?

Neuropsychology Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 203-257

  Wacholtz, Elaine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Capgras delusion; Dual neural pathway; Face recognition; Hemispheric specificity; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; CAPGRAS SYNDROME; DELUSION; FACE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; NERVE TRACT; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

AGNOSIA; CAPGRAS SYNDROME; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030429083     PISSN: 10407308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01874897     Document Type: Article

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