Differential contribution of right and left temporo-occipital and anterior temporal lesions to face recognition disorders

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JUNE, 2011, Pages

  Gainotti, Guido ^a   Marra, Camillo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Configurational processing; Familiarity feelings; Multimodal people recognition disorders; Prosopagnosia; Unilateral lesions; Visual object agnosia

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FACE PROFILE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OCCIPITAL FACE AREA; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECALL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LESION; TEMPORO-OCCIPITAL LESION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 82955235665     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00055     Document Type: Review

References (108)

1. Albert, M. L, Reches, A., and Silverberg, R. (1975). Associative visual agnosia without alexia. Neurology 25, 322-326.
2. Anaki, D., Kaufman, Y., Freedman, M., and Moscovitch, M. (2007). Associative (prosop)agnosia without (apparent) perceptual deficits: a case-study. Neuropsychologia 45, 1658-1671.
3. Atkinson, R. C., and Juola, J. F. (1974). "Search and decision processes in recognition memory," in Contemporary Developments in Mathematical Psychology, Vol. 1, Learning, Memory and Thinking, eds D. H. Krantz, R. C. Atkinson, R. D. Luce, and P. Suppes (San Francisco: Freeman), 243-293.
4. Barton, J. J. (2008). Prosopagnosia associated with a left occipitotemporal lesion. Neuropsychologia 46, 2214-2224.
5. Barton, J. J., and Cherkasova, M. (2003). Face imagery and its relation to perception and covert recognition in prosopagnosia. Neurology 61, 220-225.
6. Barton, J. J., and Cherkasova, M, O'Connor M. (2001). Covert recognition in acquired and developmental prosopagnosia. Neurology 57, 1161-1168.
7. Barton, J. J., Press, D. Z., Keenan, J. P., and O'Connor, M. (2002). Lesions of the fusiform face area impair perception of facial configuration in prosopagnosia. Neurology 58, 71-78.
8. Benton, A. (1990). Facial recognition (1990). Cortex 26, 491-499.
9. Benton, A. L., and Van Allen, M. W. (1968). Impairment of facial recognition in patients with cerebral disease. Cortex 4, 344-358.
10. Bever, T. G., and Chiarello R. J. (2009). Cerebral dominance in musicians and nonmusicians. J. Neuropsychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 21, 94-97.
11. Bodamer, J. (1947). Die prosopagnosie. Arch. Psychiatr. Nervenkr. 179, 6-53.
12. Boudouresques, J., Poncet, M, Cherif, A. A., and Balzamo, M. (1979). Agnosia for faces: evidence of functional disorganization of a certain type of recognition of objects in the physical world. Bull. Acad. Natl. Med. 163, 695-702.
13. Bradshaw, J. L., and Nettleton, N. C. (1981). The nature of hemispheric specialization in man. Behav. Brain Sci. 4, 51-91.
14. Bukach, C. M., Bub, D. N., Gauthier, I., and Tarr, M. J. (2006). Perceptual expertise effects are not all or none: spatially limited perceptual expertise for faces in a case of prosopagnosia. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 18, 48-63.
15. Busigny, T., Graf, M., Mayer, E., and Rossion, B. (2010a). Acquired prosopagnosia as a face-specific disorder: ruling out the general visual similarity account. Neuropsychologia 48, 2051-2067.
16. Busigny, T., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Ceccaldi, M., and Rossion, B. (2010b). Holistic perception of the individual face is specific and necessary: evidence from an extensive case study of acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 48, 4057-4092.
17. Busigny, T, Robaye, L., Dricot, L., and Rossion, B. (2009). Right anterior temporal lobe atrophy and person-based semantic defect: a detailed case study. Neurocase 15, 485-508.
18. Carlesimo, G. A., and Caltagirone, C. (1995). Components in the visual processing of known and unknown faces. J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol. 17, 691-705.
19. Carlesimo, G. A., Casadio, P., Sabbadini, M., and Caltagirone, C. (1998). Associative visual agnosia resulting from a disconnection between intact visual memory and semantic systems. Cortex 34, 563-576.
20. Charnallet, A., Carbonnel, S., et al. (1986). Prosopagnosia: a comparative study of two cases. Paper Presented at the 4th Bressanone Meeting of Cognitive Neuropsychology.
21. Damasio, A. R., Damasio, H., and Van Hoesen, G. W. (1982). Prosopagnosia: anatomic basis and behavioural mechanisms. Neurology 32, 331-341.
22. Damasio, A., Tranel, D., and Damasio, H. (1988). "Deep prosopagnosia": A new form of acquired face recognition defect caused by left hemisphere damage. Neurology 38 (Suppl.1), 72.
23. Damasio, A. R., Tranel, D., and Damasio, H. (1990). Face agnosia and the neural substrates of memory. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 13, 89-109.
24. Davidoff, J., and Landis, T. (1990). Recognition of unfamiliar faces in prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 28, 1143-1161.
25. Delvenne, J. F., Seron, X., Coyette, F., and Rossion, B. (2004). Evidence for perceptual deficits in associative visual (prosop)agnosia: a single-case study. Neuropsychologia 42, 597-612.
26. de Renzi, E. (1986a). "Current issues in prosopagnosia," in Aspects of Face Processing, eds H. D. Ellis, M. A. Jeeves, F. Newcombe, and A. Young (Dordrecht: Martinus Nisoff), 243-252.
27. de Renzi, E. (1986b). Slowly progressive visual agnosia or apraxia without dementia. Cortex 22, 171-180.
28. de Renzi, E. (2000). Disorders of visual recognition. Semin. Neurol. 20, 479-485.
29. de Renzi, E., and di Pellegrino, G. (1998). Prosopagnosia and alexia without object agnosia. Cortex 34, 403-415.
30. de Renzi, E., Faglioni, P., Grossi, D., and Nichelli, P. (1991). Apperceptive and associative forms of prosopagnosia. Cortex 27, 213-221.
31. de Renzi, E., Liotti, M., and Nichelli, P. (1987a). Semantic amnesia with preservation of autobiographic memory: a case report. Cortex 23, 575-597.
32. De Renzi, E., Zambolin, A., and Crisi, G. (1987b). The pattern of neuropsychological impairment associated with left posterior cerebral artery infarcts. Brain 110, 1099-1116.
33. De Renzi, E., Perani, D., Carlesimo, G. A., Silveri, M. C., and Fazio, F. (1994). Prosopagnosia can be associated with damage confined to the right hemisphere. An MRI and PET study and a review of the literature. Neuropsychologia 32, 893-902.
34. Diamond, R., and Carey, S. (1986). Why faces are and are not special: an effect of expertise. J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 115, 107-117.
35. Dixon, M. J., Bub, D. N., and Arguin, M. (1998).Semantic and visual determinants of face recognition in a prosopagnosic patient. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 10, 362-376.
36. Duchaine, B. C., and Nakayama, K. (2006). The Cambridge Face Memory Test: results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants. Neuropsychologia 44, 576-585.
37. Duchaine, B. C., and Weidenfeld, A. (2003). An evaluation of two commonly used tests of unfamiliar face recognition. Neuropsychologia 41, 713-720.
38. Ellis, A. W., and Young, A. W. (1988). Human Cognitive Neuropsychology. Hove: Lawrence Erlbaum.
39. Ellis, A. W., Young, A. W., and Critchley, E. M. R. (1989). Loss of memory for people following temporal lobe damage. Brain 112, 1469-1483.
40. Etcoff, N., Freeman R., and Cave KR. (1991). Can we lose memories of faces? Content specificity and awareness in a prosopagnosic. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 3, 25-41.
41. Evans, J. J., Heggs, A. J., Antoun, N., and Hodges, J. R. (1995). Progressive prosopagnosia associated with selective right temporal lobe atrophy. Brain 118, 1-13.
42. Farah, M. (1990). Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Visual Recognition and What They Tell Us About Normal Vision. Cambridge: MIT Press.
43. Farah, M. J., Levinson, K. L., and Klein, K. L. (1995a). Face perception and within- category discrimination in prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 33, 661-674.
44. Farah, M. J., Tanaka, J. W., and Drain, H. M. (1995b). What causes the face inversion effect? J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 21, 628-634.
45. Feinberg, T. E., Rothi, L. J., and Heilman, K. M. (1986). Multimodal agnosia after unilateral left hemisphere lesion. Neurology 36, 864-867.
46. Feinberg, T. E., Schindler, R. J., Ochoa, E., Kwan, P. C., and Farah, M. J. (1994). Associative visual agnosia and alexia without prosopagnosia. Cortex 30, 395-411.
47. Ferro, J. M., and Santos, M. E. (1984). Associative visual agnosia: a case study. Cortex 20, 121-134.
48. Fox, C. J., Iaria, G., and Barton, J. J. (2008). Disconnection in prosopagnosia and face processing. Cortex 44, 996-1009.
49. Gainotti, G. (2007a). Different patterns of famous people recognition disorders in patients with right and left anterior temporal lesions: a systematic review. Neuropsychologia 45, 1591-1607.
50. Gainotti, G. (2007b). Face familiarity feelings, the right temporal lobe and the possible underlying neural mechanisms. Brain Res. Rev. 56, 214-235.
51. Gainotti, G. (2010). Not all patients labeled as "prosopagnosia" have a real prosopagnosia. J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol. 32, 763-766.
52. Gainotti, G., Barbier, A., and Marra, C. (2003). Slowly progressive defect in recognition of familiar people in a patient with right anterior temporal atrophy. Brain 126, 792-803.
53. Gainotti, G., Ferraccioli M., Quaranta D., and Marra C. (2008). Cross-modal recognition disorders for persons and other unique entities in a patient with right fronto-temporal degeneration. Cortex 44, 238-248.
54. Gallois, P., Ovelacq, E., Hautecoeur, P., and Dereux, J. F. (1988). Disconnection and recognition of faces. A case with lesions of the left visual cortex and the splenium. Rev. Neurol. (Paris) 144, 113-119.
55. Gauthier, I., Behrmann M., and Tarr, M. J. (1999a). Can face recognition really be dissociated from object recognition? J. Cogn. Neurosci. 11, 349-370.
56. Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Anderson, A. W., Skudlarski, P., and Gore, J. C. (1999b). Activation of the middle fusiform 'face area' increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects. Nat. Neurosci. 2, 568-573.
57. Gauthier, I., and Nelson, C. A. (2001). The development of face expertise. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 11, 219-224.
58. Gauthier, I., and Tarr, M. J. (1997). Becoming a "Greeble" expert: exploring mechanisms for face recognition. Vision Res. 37, 1673-1682.
59. Gauthier, I., Tarr, M. J., Moylan, J., Skudlarski, P., Gore, J. C., and Anderson, A. W. (2000). The fusiform "face area" is part of a network that processes faces at the individual level. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 12, 495-504.
60. Gentileschi, V., Sperber, S., and Spinnler, H. (1999). Progressive defective recognition of familiar people. Neurocase 5, 407-424.
61. Gentileschi, V., Sperber, S., and Spinnler, H. (2001). Crossmodal agnosia for familiar people as a consequence of right infero-polar temporal atrophy. Cogn. Neuropsychol. 18, 439-463.
62. Grill-Spector, K., Kushnir, T., Hendler T., Edelman, S., Itzchak, Y., and Malach, R. (1998). A sequence of object-processing stages revealed by fMRI in the human occipital lobe. Hum. Brain Mapp. 6, 316-328.
63. Gross, C. G., and Sergent, J. (1992). Face recognition. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 2, 156-161.
64. Hailstone, J. C., Crutch, S. J., Vestergaard, M. D., Patterson, R. D., and Warren, J. D. (2010). Progressive associative phonagnosia: a neuropsychological analysis. Neuropsychologia 48, 1104-1114.
65. Hanley, J. R., Young, A. W., and Pearson, N. A. (1989). Defective recognition of familiar people. Cogn. Neuropsychol. 6, 179-210.
66. Haxby, J. V., Hoffman, E. A., and Gobbini, M. I. (2000). The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends Cogn. Sci. 4, 223-233.
67. Henke, K., Schweinberger, S. R., Grigo, A., Klos, T., and Sommer, W. (1998). Specificity of face recognition: recognition of exemplars of non-face objects in prosopagnosia. Cortex 34, 289-296.
68. Joassin, F., Pesenti, M., Maurage, P., Verreckt, E., Bruyer, R., and Campanella, S. (2011). Cross-modal interactions between human faces and voices involved in person recognition. Cortex 47, 367-376.
69. Joubert, S., Felician, O., Barbeau, E., Sontheimer, A., Barton, J. J., Ceccaldi, M., and Poncet, M. (2003). Impaired configurational processing in a case of progressive prosopagnosia associated with predominant right temporal lobe atrophy. Brain 126, 2357-2350.
70. Kanwisher, N. (2000). Domain specificity in face perception. Nat. Neurosci. 3, 759-763.
71. Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., and Chun, M. M. (1997). The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. J. Neurosci. 17, 4302-4431.
72. Levine, D. N., and Calvanio, R. (1989). Prosopagnosia: a defect in visual configural processing. Brain Cogn. 10, 149-170.
73. Lhermitte, F., Chain, F., Escourolle, R., Ducarne, B., and Pillon, B. (1972). Anatomoclinical study of a case of prosopagnosia. Rev. Neurol. (Paris) 126, 329-346.
74. Lhermitte, F., and Pillon, B. (1975). La prosopagnosie. Role de l'hémisphère droit dans la perception visuelle. Rev. Neurol. (Paris) 131, 791-812.
75. Lissauer, H. (1890). Ein fall von seelenblindheit nebst einem beitrag zur theorie derselben. Arch. Psychiatr. 21, 222-270.
76. Marotta, J. J., Genovese, C. R., and Behrmann, M. (2001). A functional MRI study of face recognition in patients with prosopagnosia. Neuroreport 12, 1581-1587.
77. Mattson, A. J., Levin H. S., and Grafman J. (2000). A case of prosopagnosia following moderate closed head injury with left hemisphere focal lesion. Cortex 36, 125-137.
78. McCarthy, R. A., and Warrington, E. K. (1986). Visual associative agnosia: a clinico-anatomical study of a single case. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 49, 1233-1240.
79. McNeil, J. E., and Warrington, E. K. (1993). Prosopagnosia: a face-specific disorder. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. A. 46, 1-10.
80. Michel, F., Perenin, M. T., and Sieroff, F. (1986). Prosopagnosie sans hemianopsie après lésion unilatérale occipito-temporale droite. Rev. Neurol. (Paris) 142, 545-554.
81. Mohedano-Moriano, A., Martinez-Marcos, A., Pro-Sistiaga, P., Blaizot, X., Arroyo-Jimenez, M. M., Marcos, P., Artacho-Pérula, E., and Insausti, R. (2008). Convergence of unimodal and polymodal sensory input to the entorhinal cortex in the fascicularis monkey. Neuroscience 151, 55-71.
82. Nakachi, R., and Muramatsu, T. (2007). Progressive prosopagnosia at the very early stage of frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Psychogeriatrics 7, 155-162.
83. Peretz, I. (1990). Processing of local and global musical information by unilateral brain-damaged patients. Brain 113, 1185-1205.
84. Pillon, B., Signoret, J. L., and Lhermitte, F. (1981). Associative visual agnosia: role of the left hemisphere in visual perception. Rev. Neurol. (Paris) 137, 831-842.
85. Rapcsak, S. Z., Polster, M. R., Glisky, M. L., and Comer, J. F. (1996). False recognition of unfamiliar faces following right hemisphere damage: neuropsychological and anatomical observations. Cortex 32, 593-611.
86. Rhodes, G. (1988). Looking at faces: first-order and second-order features as determinants of facial appearance. Perception 17, 43-63.
87. Rhodes, G., Brake, S., and Atkinson, A. (1993). What's lost in inverted faces? Cognition 47, 25-57.
88. Riddoch, M. J., Johnston, R. A., Bracewell, R. M., Boutsen, L., and Humphreys, G. W. (2008). Are faces special? A case of pure prosopagnosia. Cogn. Neuropsychol. 25, 3-26.
89. Rossion, B., Caldara, R., Seghier, M., Schuller, A. M., Lazeyras, F., and Mayer, E. (2003). A network of occipito-temporal face-sensitive areas besides the right middle fusiform gyrus is necessary for normal face processing. Brain 126, 2381-2395.
90. Schiltz, C., and Rossion, B. (2006). Faces are represented holistically in the human occipito-temporal cortex. Neuroimage 32, 1385-1394.
91. Schweinberger, S. R., Klos, T., and Sommer, W. (1995). Covert face recognition in prosopagnosia: a dissociable function? Cortex 31, 517-529.
92. Sergent, J., and Poncet, M. (1988). Patterns of perceptual deficits in 2 prosopagnosic patients. J. Clin. Exp. Neuropsychol. 10, 50.
93. Sergent, J., and Poncet, M. (1990). From covert to overt recognition of faces in a prosopagnosic patient. Brain 113, 989-1004.
94. Sergent, J., and Signoret, J. L. (1992). Varieties of functional deficits in prosopagnosia. Cereb. Cortex 2, 375-388.
95. Sergent, J., and Villemure, J. G. (1989). Prosopagnosia in a right hemispherectomized patient. Brain 112, 975-995.
96. Sorger, B., Goebel, R., Schiltz, C., and Rossion, B. (2007). Understanding the functional neuroanatomy of acquired prosopagnosia. Neuroimage 35, 836-852.
97. Takahashi, N., Kawamura, M., Hirayama, K., Shiota, J., and Isono, O. (1995). Prosopagnosia: a clinical and anatomical study of four patients. Cortex 31, 317-329.
98. Tanaka, J. W., and Farah, M. J. (1993). Parts and wholes in face recognition. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 46, 225-245.
99. Tzavaras, T., Merienne L., and Masure, M. C. (1973). Prosopagnosie, amnésie et troubles du langage par lésion temporale gauche chez un sujet gaucher. Encéphale 62, 382-394.
100. Uttner, I., Bliem, H., and Danek, A. (2002). Prosopagnosia after unilateral right cerebral infarction. J. Neurol. 249, 933-935.
101. Verstichel, P. (2001). Troubles de la reconnaissance des visages: reconnaissance implicite, sentiment de familiarité, role de chaque hémisphère. Bull. Acad. Natl. Med. 185, 537-553.
102. Verstichel, P., and Chia, L. (1999). Troubles de l'identification des visages après lésion hémisphérique gauche. Rev. Neurol. (Paris) 155, 937-943.
103. Yonelinas, A. P. (2002). The nature of recollection and familiarity: a review of 30 years of research. J. Mem. Lang. 46, 441-517.
104. Wada, Y., and Yamamoto, T. (2001). Selective impairment of facial recognition due to a haematoma restricted to the right fusiform and lateral occipital region. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 71, 254-257.
105. Warrington, E. K., and Taylor, A. M. (1973). The contribution of the right parietal lobe to object recognition. Cortex 9, 152-164.
106. Warrington, E. K., and Taylor, A. M. (1978). Two categorical stages of object recognition. Perception 7, 695-705.
107. Williams, M. A., Savage, G., and Halmagyl, M. (2006). Abnormal configural face perception in a patient with right anterior temporal lobe atrophy. Neurocase 12, 286-291.
108. Yin, R. K. (1969). Looking at upside-down faces. J. Exp. Psychol. 81, 141-145.