Superior voice recognition in a patient with acquired prosopagnosia and object agnosia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 3725-3732

  Hoover, Adria E N ^a,b   Démonet, Jean François ^c   Steeves, Jennifer K E ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory; Crossmodal; Face recognition; Object recognition; Visual; Visual agnosia; Voice recognition

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; HUMAN; MALE; OBJECT AGNOSIA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AGNOSIA; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 78149411805     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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