Covert person recognition: Its fadeout in a case of temporal lobe degeneration

Cortex

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-67

  Sperber, Sarah ^a   Spinnler, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Covert face recognition; Face name relearning; Prosopagnosia; Right temporal atrophy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0037323654     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70074-1     Document Type: Article

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