Impairment of holistic face perception following right occipito-temporal damage in prosopagnosia: Converging evidence from gaze-contingency

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3145-3150

  Van Belle, Goedele ^a   Busigny, Thomas ^a   Lefèvre, Philippe ^a   Joubert, Sven ^a   Felician, Olivier ^a   Gentile, Francesco ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acquired prosopagnosia; Face perception; Gaze contingency; Holistic processing; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; EYE MOVEMENT; FACE PERCEPTION; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; EYE MOVEMENTS; FACE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051825824     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.010     Document Type: Article

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