Specificity of face recognition: Recognition of exemplars of non-face objects in prosopagnosia

Cortex

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-296

  Henke, Katharina ^a   Schweinberger, Stefan R ^b,c   Grigo, Alva ^b   Klos, Thomas ^d   Sommer, Werner ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Face recognition; Object recognition; Prosopagnosia; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FACE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0031744658     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70756-1     Document Type: Article

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