A new selective developmental deficit: Impaired object recognition with normal face recognition

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 598-607

  Germine, Laura ^a   Cashdollar, Nathan ^b   Düzel, Emrah ^b,c   Duchaine, Bradley ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amnesia; Developmental disorders; Face recognition; Object recognition; Prosopagnosia; Visual agnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RECOGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGNOSIA; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FACE; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTERNET; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952697855     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.04.009     Document Type: Article

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