Holistic perception of the individual face is specific and necessary: Evidence from an extensive case study of acquired prosopagnosia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4057-4092

  Busigny, Thomas ^a   Joubert, Sven ^b   Felician, Olivier ^c   Ceccaldi, Mathieu ^c   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Acquired prosopagnosia; Face processing; Holistic perception; Right hemisphere; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE REPORT; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EPISODIC MEMORY; FACE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; VISION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 78649443538     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.017     Document Type: Article

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