Does prosopagnosia take the eyes out of face representations? Evidence for a defect in representing diagnostic facial information following brain damage

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1652-1666

  Caldara, Roberto ^a   Schyns, Philippe ^a   Mayer, Eugène ^b   Smith, Marie L ^a   Gosselin, Frédéric ^c   Rossion, Bruno ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; MOUTH; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TRAINING;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 27144491335     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892905774597254     Document Type: Article

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