Training of familiar face recognition and visual scan paths for faces in a child with congenital prosopagnosia

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 704-729

  Schmalzl, Laura ^a   Palermo, Romina ^a   Green, Melissa ^b,c   Brunsdon, Ruth ^d   Coltheart, Max ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

Congenital; Face recognition; Prosopagnosia; Training; Visual scan paths

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RELIABILITY; TEACHING; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ATTENTION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 50449103559     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290802299350     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Althoff, R. R. and Cohen, N. J. (1999) Eye-movement based memory effect: A reprocessing effect in face perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 25, pp. 997-1010.
2. Ariel, R. and Sadeh, M. (1996) Congenital visual agnosia and prosopagnosia in a child. Cortex, 12, pp. 76-82.
3. Bates, T. C. and D'Oliveiro, L. (2003) PsyScript: A Macintosh application for scripting experiments. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 35, pp. 565-576.
4. Bruce, V. and Young, A. W. (1986) Understanding face recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 77, pp. 305-327.
5. Brunsdon, R., Coltheart, M., Nickels, L. and Joy, P. (2006) Developmental prosopagnosia: A case analysis and treatment study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, pp. 822-840.
6. Calder, A. J. and Young, A. W. (2005) Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial expression. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6, pp. 641-651.
7. Campbell, R., Walker, J. and Baron-Cohen, S. (1995) The development of differential use of inner and outer face features in familiar face identification. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 59, pp. 196-210.
8. Crawford, J. R. and Howell, D. C. (1998) Comparing an individual's test score against norms derived from small samples. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 12, pp. 482-486.
9. De Gutis, J. M., Bentin, S., Robertson, L. C. and D'Esposito, M. (2007) Functional plasticity in ventral temporal cortex following configural training with faces in a congenital prosopagnosic. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9, pp. 1790-1820.
10. De Haan, E. H. F. and Campbell, R. (1991) A fifteen year follow-up of a case of developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 27, pp. 489-509.
11. De Haan, E. H. F. and Hay, D. C. (1986) The effect of unilateral brain lesion on matching famous and unknown faces given either the internal or the external features: A study on patients with unilateral brain lesions. Aspects of face processing, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
12. Duchaine, B., Germine, L. and Nakayama, K. (2007) Family resemblance: Ten family members with prosopagnosia and within-class object agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, pp. 419-430.
13. Duchaine, B. and Nakayama, K. (2005) Dissociations of face and object recognition in developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17, pp. 249-261.
14. Ekman, P. and Friesen, W. V. (1976) Pictures of facial affect, Consulting Psychology Press, Palo Alto, CA
15. Elliot, C. (1990) Differential Ability Scales manual, The Psychological Corporation, San Antonio, TX
16. Ellis, H. D., Shepherd, J. W. and Davies, G. M. (1979) Identification of familiar and unfamiliar faces from internal and external features: Some implications for theories of face recognition. Perception, 8, pp. 341-439.
17. Ellis, H. D. and Young, A. W. (1988) Training in face processing skills for a child with acquired prosopagnosia. Developmental Neuropsychology, 4, pp. 283-294.
18. Gallay, M., Bauduin, J., Durand, K., Lemoine, C. and Lecuyer, R. (2006) Qualitative differences in the exploration of upright and upside down faces in four months old infants: An eye movement study. Child Development, 77, pp. 984-996.
19. Grogan, M., Brunsdon, R. and Joy, P. (2006) Object recognition abilities in two children with congenital prosopagnosia.
20. Grueter, M., Grueter, T., Bell, V., Horst, J., Laskowski, W. Sperling, K. et al. (2007) Hereditary prosopagnosia: The first case series. Cortex, 43, pp. 734-749.
21. Heisz, J. J. and Shore, D. I. (2008) More efficient scanning for familiar faces. Journal of Vision, 8, pp. 1-10.
22. Hunnius, S. and Geuze, R. H. (2004) Developmental changes in visual scanning of dynamic faces and abstract stimuli in infants: A longitudinal study. Infancy, 6, pp. 231-255.
23. Jones, R. D. and Tranel, D. (2001) Severe developmental prosopagnosia in a child with superior intellect. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 23, pp. 265-273.
24. Kennerknecht, I., Grueter, T., Welling, B., Wentzek, S., Horst, J. Edwards, S. et al. (2006) First report of prevalence of non-syndromic hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA). American Journal of Medical Genetics, 140, pp. 1617-1622.
25. Kress, T. and Daum, I. (2003) Developmental prosopagnosia: A review. Behavioural Neurology, 14, pp. 109-121.
26. Le, S., Raufaste, E. and Demonet, J. (2003) Processing of normal, inverted, and scrambled faces in a patient with prosopagnosia: Behavioural and eye tracking data. Cognitive Brain Research, 17, pp. 26-35.
27. Le, S., Raufaste, E., Roussel, S., Puel, M. and Demonet, J. (2003) Implicit face perception in a patient with visual agnosia? Evidence from behavioural and eye tracking analysis. Neuropsychologia, 41, pp. 702-712.
28. Le Grand, R., Cooper, P. A., Mondloch, C. J., Lewis, T. L., Sagiv, N. De Gelder, B. et al. (2006) What aspects of face processing are impaired in developmental prosopagnosia?. Brain and Cognition, 61, pp. 139-158.
29. Le Grand, R., Mondloch, C., Maurer, D. and Brent, H. P. (2001) Early visual experience and face processing. Nature, 412, p. 786.
30. Le Grand, R., Mondloch, C., Maurer, D. and Brent, H. P. (2004) Impairment in holistic face processing following early visual deprivation. Psychological Science, 15, pp. 762-768.
31. Maurer, D., Le Grand, R. and Mondloch, C. J. (2002) The many faces of configural processing. Trends in Cognitive Science, 6, pp. 255-260.
32. McConachie, H. R. (1976) Developmental prosopagnosia. A single case report. Cortex, 12, pp. 76-82.
33. Mondloch, C., Le Grand, R. and Maurer, D. (2003) Early visual experience is necessary for the development of some-but not all-aspects of face processing. The development of face processing in infancy and early childhood: Current perspectives, pp. 99-117. Nova Science Publishers, New York
34. Riddoch, M. and Humphreys, G. (1993) BORB: The Birmingham Object Recognition Battery, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hove, UK
35. Rizzo, M., Hurting, R. and Damasio, A. R. (1987) The role of scanpaths in facial recognition and learning. Annals of Neurology, 22, pp. 41-45.
36. Schmalzl, L., Palermo, R. and Coltheart, M. (2008) Cognitive heterogeneity in genetically-based prosopagnosia: A family study. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2, pp. 99-117.
37. Schopler, E., Reichler, R. J. and Rochen Renner, B. (1980) Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS), Western Psychological Services, Los Angeles
38. Schwarzer, G., Huber, S., Grueter, M., Grueter, T., Gross, C. Hipfel, M. et al. (2007) Gaze behaviour in hereditary prosopagnosia. Psychological Research, 71, pp. 583-590.
39. Stacey, P. C., Walker, S. and Underwood, J. D. (2005) Face processing and familiarity: Evidence from eye movement data. British Journal of Psychology, 96, pp. 407-422.
40. Tanaka, J., Klaiman, C., Koenig, K. and Schultz, R. T. (2005) Poster presented at the International Meeting for Autism Research Boston, MA Plasticity of the neural mechanisms underlying face processing in children with ASD: Behavioral improvements following perceptual training on faces
41. Taylor, M. J., Batty, M. and Itier, R. J. (2004) The faces of development: A review of early face processing over childhood. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, pp. 1426-1442.
42. Van der Geest, J. N., Kemner, C., Verbaten, M. N. and Van Engeland, H. (2002) Gaze behaviour of children with developmental disorder towards human faces: A fixation time study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43, pp. 669-678.
43. Wilson, R. R., Blades, M. and Pascalis, O. (2007) What do children look at in an adult face with which they are personally familiar?. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25, pp. 375-382.
44. Young, A. W. and Ellis, H. D. (1989) Childhood prosopagnosia. Brain and Cognition, 9, pp. 16-47.
45. Young, A. W., Hay, D. C., McWeeny, K. H., Flude, B. M. and Ellis, A. W. (1985) Matching familiar and unfamiliar faces on internal and external features. Perception, 14, pp. 737-746.
46. Yovel, G. and Duchaine, B. (2006) Specialized face perception mechanisms extract both part and spacing information: Evidence from developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, pp. 580-593.