Impaired integration of emotional faces and affective body context in a rare case of developmental visual agnosia

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 689-700

  Aviezer, Hillel ^a   Hassin, Ran R ^a   Bentin, Shlomo ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Body language; Developmental prosopagnosia; Developmental visual agnosia; Emotion recognition; Facial expressions; Perceptual integration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AGNOSIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL VISUAL AGNOSIA; FACIAL EXPRESSION; GESTURE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84860352747     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.03.005     Document Type: Article

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