Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2541-2552

  Avidan, Galia ^a   Tanzer, Michal ^a   Behrmann, Marlene ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired prosopagnosia; Configural; Face perception; Faces; Global processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 79960177023     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.05.002     Document Type: Article

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