Training with own-race faces can improve processing of other-race faces: Evidence from developmental prosopagnosia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2505-2513

  DeGutis, Joseph ^a,b   DeNicola, Christopher ^c   Zink, Tyler ^d   McGlinchey, Regina ^a   Milberg, William ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental Population Groups; Discrimination learning; Face; Prosopagnosia developmental; Recognition (psychology); Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATTENTION; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL PROSOPAGNOSIA; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREAN; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 79960168449     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.04.031     Document Type: Article

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