Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital prosopagnosia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1226-1235

  Palermo, Romina ^a,b,c   Willis, Megan L ^c   Rivolta, Davide ^c   McKone, Elinor ^a,b   Wilson, C Ellie ^c   Calder, Andrew J ^a,d  

^a ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion; Expression; Face perception; Holistic processing; Identity; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954415676     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.021     Document Type: Article

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