Impaired processing of relative distances between features and of the eye region in acquired prosopagnosia-Two sides of the same holistic coin?

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 374-389

  Ramon, Meike ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acquired prosopagnosia; Face perception; Facial features; Holistic face processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERSONAL APPEARANCE; PILOT STUDY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY;

AGING; BRAIN INJURIES; CUES; EYE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949103127     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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