Impaired configurational processing in a case of progressive prosopagnosia associated with predominant right temporal lobe atrophy

Brain

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2537-2550

  Joubert, Sven ^a,b   Felician, Olivier ^a,b   Barbeau, Emmanuel ^a,b   Sontheimer, Anna ^a,b   Barton, Jason J ^c   Ceccaldi, Mathieu ^a,b   Poncet, Michel ^a,b  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Configurational face processing; Fusiform gyrus; Progressive prosopagnosia; Right temporal lobe atrophy; Visual agnosia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOLUMETRY;

EID: 0142184232     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awg259     Document Type: Article

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