Are faces special? A case of pure prosopagnosia

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 3-26

  Riddoch, M Jane ^a   Johnston, Robert A ^b   Bracewell, R Martyn ^c   Boutsen, Luc ^d   Humphreys, Glyn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category specificity; Configural processing; Modular processing; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FACE; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME;

EID: 40749160964     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290801920113     Document Type: Article

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