Impairments of biological motion perception in congenital prosopagnosia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Lange, Joachim ^a,b   de Lussanet, Marc ^c   Kuhlmann, Simone ^c   Zimmermann, Anja ^c   Lappe, Markus ^c   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^c   Dobel, Christian ^c,d  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FACE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 70350733739     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007414     Document Type: Article

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