A computational model of dysfunctional facial encoding in congenital prosopagnosia

Neural Networks

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 652-664

  Stollhoff, Rainer ^a   Kennerknecht, Ingo ^c   Elze, Tobias ^a   Jost, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital prosopagnosia; Face recognition; Faceblind; Hereditary prosopagnosia; ICA; Independent component analysis; Infomax; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL PROSOPAGNOSIA; FACEBLIND; HEREDITARY PROSOPAGNOSIA; ICA; INFOMAX; PROSOPAGNOSIA;

DATA PROCESSING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

FACE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL PROSOPAGNOSIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79957600334     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: 18792782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2011.03.006     Document Type: Article

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