Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant-stimulus ethnic match on the cambridge face memory test and cambridge face perception test

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 423-455

  Bowles, Devin C ^a   McKone, Elinor ^a   Dawel, Amy ^a   Duchaine, Bradley ^b   Palermo, Romina ^a,c   Schmalzl, Laura ^c   Rivolta, Davide ^c   Wilson, C Ellie ^c   Yovel, Galit ^d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ageing; Aging; Face recognition; Gender; Other race effects; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949417909     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290903343149     Document Type: Article

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