Not all patients labeled as "prosopagnosia" have a real prosopagnosia

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 763-766

  Gainotti, Guido ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Associative prosopagnosia; Familiar name recognition; Familiar voice recognition; Multimodal people recognition disorders; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CLASSIFICATION; FACE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FACE; HUMANS; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77955076975     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390903512686     Document Type: Article

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