Acquired prosopagnosia with spared within-class object recognition but impaired recognition of degraded basic-level objects

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 325-347

  Rezlescu, Constantin ^a   Pitcher, David ^b   Duchaine, Brad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquired prosopagnosia; Case study; Domain specificity; Face perception; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84871021245     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2012.749223     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. Abrosoft Co. (2002). FantaMorph (Version 3.0) [computer software]. Beijing: Abrosoft. Available from http://www.facegen.com.
2. Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y. and Plumb, I. 2001. The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test revised version: A study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42: 241-251. (doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00715)
3. Barton, J. J. S. 2008. Structure and function in acquired prosopagnosia: Lessons from a series of 10 patients with brain damage. Journal of Neuropsychology, 2: 197-225. (doi:10.1348/174866407X214172)
4. Barton, J. J. S., Cherkasova, M. V., Press, D. Z., Intriligator, J. M. and O'Connor, M. 2004. Perceptual functions in prosopagnosia. Perception, 33: 939-956. (doi:10.1068/p5243)
5. Bauer, R. M. and Trobe, J. D. 1984. Visual memory and perceptual impairments in prosopagnosia. Journal of Clinical Neuro-ophthalmology, 4: 39-46. (doi:10.3109/01658108409019494)
6. Behrmann, M., Avidan, G., Marotta, J. J. and Kimchi, R. 2005. Detailed exploration of face-related processing in congenital prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral findings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17: 1130-1149. (doi:10.1162/0898929054475154)
7. Behrmann, M. and Kimchi, R. 2003. What does visual agnosia tell us about perceptual organization and its relationship to object perception?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29: 19-42. (doi:10.1037/0096-1523.29.1.19)
8. Benton, A. L. and van Allen, M. W. 1972. Prosopagnosia and facial discrimination. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 15: 167-172. (doi:10.1016/0022-510X(72)90004-4)
9. Boutsen, L. and Humphreys, G. W. 2002. Face context interferes with local part processing in a prosopagnosic patient. Neuropsychologia, 40: 2305-2313. (doi:10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00088-X)
10. Bowles, D. C., McKone, E., Dawel, A., Duchaine, B., Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L. and Yovel, G. 2009. Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant-stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26: 423-455. (doi:10.1080/02643290903343149)
11. Bukach, C. M., Bud, D. N., Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. J. (2006). Perceptual expertise effects are not all or none: Spatially limited perceptual expertise for faces in a case of prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 48-63.
12. Busigny, T., Graf, M., Mayer, E. and Rossion, B. 2010. Acquired prosopagnosia as a face-specific disorder: Ruling out the general visual similarity account. Neuropsychologia, 48: 2051-2067. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.03.026)
13. Busigny, T., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Ceccaldi, M. and Rossion, B. 2010. Holistic perception of the individual face is specific and necessary: Evidence from an extensive case study of acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 48: 4057-4092. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.09.017)
14. Busigny, T. and Rossion, B. 2011. Holistic processing impairment can be restricted to faces in acquired prosopagnosia: Evidence from the global/local Navon effect. Journal of Neuropsychology, 5: 1-14. (doi:10.1348/174866410X500116)
15. Buxbaum, L. J., Glosser, G., & Coslett, H. B. (1996). Relative sparing of object recognition in alexia-prosopagnosia. Brain and Cognition, 32, 202-205.
16. Caramazza, A. and Shelton, J. R. 1998. Domain-specific knowledge systems in the brain: The animate-inanimate distinction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10: 1-34. (doi:10.1162/089892998563752)
17. Chao, L. L., Haxby, J. V. and Martin, A. 1999. Attribute-based neural substrates in temporal cortex for perceiving and knowing about objects. Nature Neuroscience, 2: 913-919. (doi:10.1038/13217)
18. Crawford, J. R. and Howell, D. C. 1998. Comparing an individual's test score against norms derived from small samples. Clinical Neuropsychologist, 12: 482-486. (doi:10.1076/clin.12.4.482.7241)
19. Damasio, A. R., Damasio, H. and Van Hoesen, G. W. 1982. Prosopagnosia: Anatomic basis and behavioural mechanisms. Neurology, 32: 331-341. (doi:10.1212/WNL.32.4.331)
20. 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. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.10.008)
21. Dennett, H. W., McKone, E., Tavashmi, R., Hall, A., Pidcock, M., Edwards, M. and Duchaine, B. 2012. The Cambridge Car Memory Test: A task matched in format to the Cambridge Face Memory Test, with norms, reliability, sex differences, dissociations from face memory, and expertise effects. Behavioral Research Methods, 44: 587-605. (doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0160-2)
22. De Renzi, E. 1986a. "Current issues on prosopagnosia". In Aspects of face processing, Edited by: Ellis, H. D., Jeeves, M. A., Newcombe, F. and Young, A. 243-252. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff.
23. De Renzi, E. 1986b. Prosopagnosia in two patients with CT scan evidence of damage confined to the right hemisphere. Neuropsychologia, 24: 385-389. (doi:10.1016/0028-3932(86)90023-0)
24. De Renzi, E. and di Pellegrino, G. 1998. Prosopagnosia and alexia without object agnosia. Cortex, 34: 403-415. (doi:10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70763-9)
25. De Renzi, E., Faglioni, P., Grossi, D. and Nichelli, P. 1991. Apperceptive and associative forms of prosopagnosia. Cortex, 27: 213-221.
26. De Renzi, E., Faglioni, P. and Spinnler, H. 1968. The performance of patients with unilateral brain damage on face recognition tasks. Cortex, 4: 17-34.
27. Duchaine, B. 2000. Developmental prosopagnosia with normal configural processing. Neuroreport, 11: 79-83. (doi:10.1097/00001756-200001170-00016)
28. Duchaine, B., Germine, L. and Nakayama, K. 2007. Family resemblance: Ten family members with prosopagnosia and within-class object agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24: 419-430. (doi:10.1080/02643290701380491)
29. Duchaine, B. and Nakayama, K. 2005. Dissociations of face and object recognition in developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17: 249-261. (doi:10.1162/0898929053124857)
30. Duchaine, B. and Nakayama, K. 2006. The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic individuals. Neuropsychologia, 44: 576-585. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.07.001)
31. Duchaine, B., Yovel, G., Butterworth, E. and Nakayama, K. 2006. Prosopagnosia as an impairment to face-specific mechanisms: Elimination of the alternative hypotheses in a developmental case. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23: 714-747. (doi:10.1080/02643290500441296)
32. Duchaine, B., Yovel, G. and Nakayama, K. 2007. No global processing deficit in the Navon task in 14 developmental prosopagnosics. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2: 104-113. (doi:10.1093/scan/nsm003)
33. Ekstrom, R., French, J. W. and Harman, H. H. 1976. Manual for Kit of Factor-referenced Cognitive Tests, Princeton, NJ: Educational Testing Service.
34. Farah, M. J. 1996. Is face recognition "special"? Evidence from neuropsychology. Behavioural Brain Research, 76: 181-189. (doi:10.1016/0166-4328(95)00198-0)
35. Farah, M. J. 2004. Visual agnosia: Disorders of object recognition and what they tell us about normal vision, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
36. Farah, M. J., Levinson, K. L. and Klein, K. L. 1995. Face perception and within-category discrimination in prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 33: 661-674. (doi:10.1016/0028-3932(95)00002-K)
37. Farah, M. J., McMullen, P. A., & Meyer, M. M. (1991). Can recognition of living things be selectively impaired? Neuropsychologia, 29, 185-193.
38. Fox, C. J., Hanif, H. M., Iaria, G., Duchaine, B. C. and Barton, J. J. S. 2011. Perceptual and anatomic patterns of selective deficits in facial identity and expression processing. Neuropsychologia, 49: 3188-3200. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.018)
39. Garrido, L., Furl, N., Draganski, B., Weiskopf, N., Stevens, J., Tan, G. C. Y. and Duchaine, B. 2009. Voxel-based morphometry reveals reduced grey matter volume in the temporal cortex of developmental prosopagnosics. Brain, 132: 3443-3455. (doi:10.1093/brain/awp271)
40. Gauthier, I., Behrmann, M. and Tarr, M. J. 1999. Can face recognition really be dissociated from object recognition?. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11: 349-370. (doi:10.1162/089892999563472)
41. Glover, G. H. 1999. Deconvolution of impulse response in event-related BOLD fMRI. NeuroImage, 9: 416-429. (doi:10.1006/nimg.1998.0419)
42. 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. (doi:10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70756-1)
43. Jenkinson, M., Bannister, P., Brady, M. and Smith, S. 2002. Improved optimization for the robust and accurate linear registration and motion correction of brain images. NeuroImage, 17: 825-841. (doi:10.1006/nimg.2002.1132)
44. Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J. and Chun, M. M. 1997. The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 17: 4302-4311.
45. Lê, S., Cardebat, D., Boulanouar, K., Hénaff, M.-A., Michel, F., Milner, D. and Démonet, J. F. 2002. Seeing, since childhood, without ventral stream: A behavioural study. Brain, 125: 58-74. (doi:10.1093/brain/awf004)
46. Levine, D. N. and Calvanio, R. 1989. Prosopagnosia: A defect in visual configural processing. Brain and Cognition, 10: 149-170. (doi:10.1016/0278-2626(89)90051-1)
47. Levine, D. N., Calvanio, R. and Wolf, E. 1980. Disorders of visual behavior following bilateral posterior cerebral lesions. Psychological Research, 41: 217-234. (doi:10.1007/BF00308658)
48. Macmillan, N. A. and Creelman, C. D. 1991. Detection theory: A user's guide, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
49. McNeil, J. E. and Warrington, E. K. 1993. Prosopagnosia: A face-specific disorder. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Experimental Psychology, 46A: 1-10.
50. Mooney, C. M. 1957. Age in the development of closure ability in children. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 11: 219-226. (doi:10.1037/h0083717)
51. Moscovitch, M., Winocur, G. and Behrmann, M. 1997. What is special in face recognition? Nineteen experiments on a person with visual object agnosia and dyslexia but normal face recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 9: 555-604. (doi:10.1162/jocn.1997.9.5.555)
52. Navon, D. (1977). Forest before trees: The precedence of global features in visual perception. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 353-383.
53. Noppeney, U., Price, C. J., Penny, W. D. and Friston, K. J. 2006. Two distinct neural mechanisms for category-selective responses. Cerebral Cortex, 16: 437-445. (doi:10.1093/cercor/bhi123)
54. Pillon, A. and d'Honincthun, P. 2011. A common processing system for the concepts of artifacts and actions? Evidence from a case of a disproportionate conceptual impairment for living things. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 28: 1-43. (doi:10.1080/02643294.2011.615828)
55. Pitcher, D., Charles, L., Devlin, J. T., Walsh, V. and Duchaine, B. 2009. Triple dissociation of faces, bodies, and objects in extrastriate cortex. Current Biology, 19: 319-324. (doi:10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.007)
56. Pitcher, D., Dilks, D. D., Saxe, R. R., Triantafyllou, C. and Kanwisher, N. 2011. Differential selectivity for dynamic versus static information in face-selective cortical regions. NeuroImage, 56: 2356-2363. (doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.03.067)
57. Riddoch, M. J. and Humphreys, G. W. 1993. BORB: Birmingham Object Recognition Battery, Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
58. Riddoch, M. J., Johnston, R. A., Bracewell, R. M., Boutsen, L. and Humphreys, G. W. 2008. Are faces special? A case of pure prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25: 3-26. (doi:10.1080/02643290801920113)
59. Rivest, J., Moscovitch, M. and Black, S. 2009. A comparative case study of face recognition: The contribution of configural and part-based recognition systems, and their interaction. Neuropsychologia, 47: 2798-2811. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.06.004)
60. Robbins, R. and McKone, E. 2007. No face-like processing for objects-of-expertise in three behavioural tasks. Cognition, 103: 34-79. (doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.02.008)
61. Rosch, E., Mervis, C. B., Gray, W., Johnson, D. and Boyes-Braem, P. 1976. Basic objects in natural categories. Cognitive Psychology, 8: 382-439. (doi:10.1016/0010-0285(76)90013-X)
62. Schweinberger, S. R., Klos, T. and Sommer, W. 1995. Covert face recognition in prosopagnosia: A dissociable function?. Cortex, 31: 517-529.
63. Sergent, J. and Signoret, J. L. 1992. Varieties of functional deficits in prosopagnosia. Cerebral Cortex, 2: 375-388. (doi:10.1093/cercor/2.5.375)
64. Singular Inversions. (2008). FaceGen Modeller (Version 3.3) [computer software]. Toronto, ON: Singular Inversions.
65. Smith, S. M., Jenkinson, M., Woolrich, M. W., Beckmann, C. F., Behrens, T. E., Johansen-Berg, H., & Matthews, P. M. (2004). Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL. Neuroimage, 23, S208.
66. Smith Micro Software. (2009). Poser (Version 8) [computer software]. Aliso Viejo, CA: Smith Micro Software.
67. Snodgrass, J. G. and Vanderwart, M. 1980. A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Human Learning and Memory, 6: 174-215. (doi:10.1037/0278-7393.6.2.174)
68. Steeves, J. K., Culham, J. C., Duchaine, B. C., Pratesi, C. C., Valyear, K. F., Schindler, I. and Goodale, M. A. 2006. The fusiform face area is not sufficient for face recognition: Evidence from a patient with dense prosopagnosia and no occipital face area. Neuropsychologia, 44: 594-609. (doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.06.013)
69. Street, R. F. 1931. A Gestalt completion university, New York, NY: Teachers College of Columbia University.
70. Susilo, T., McKone, E., Dennett, H., Darke, H., Palermo, R., Hall, A. and Rhodes, G. 2010. Face recognition impairments despite normal holistic processing and face space coding: Evidence from a case of developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27: 636-664. (doi:10.1080/02643294.2011.613372)
71. Takahashi, N., Kawamura, M., Hirayama, K., Shiota, J., & Isono, O. (1995). Prosopagnosia: A clinical and anatomical study of four patients. Cortex, 31, 317-329.
72. Tarr, M. J., Kersten, D., & Bülthoff, H. H. (1998). Why the visual recognition system might encode the effects of illumination. Vision research, 38, 2259-2276.
73. Tsao, D. Y., Freiwald, W. A., Tootell, R. B., & Livingstone, M. S. (2006). A cortical region consisting entirely of face-selective cells. Science, 311(5761), 670-674.
74. Viggiano, M. P., Costantini, A., Vannucci, M. and Righi, S. 2004. Hemispheric asymmetry for spatially filtered stimuli belonging to different semantic categories. Cognitive Brain Research, 20: 519-524. (doi:10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2004.03.010)
75. Wada, Y., & Yamamoto, T. (2001). Selective impairment of facial recognition due to a haematoma restricted to the right fusiform and lateral occipital region. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 71, 254-257.
76. Warrington, E. K. and Shallice, T. 1984. Category specific semantic impairments. Brain, 107: 829-854. (doi:10.1093/brain/107.3.829)
77. Whiteley, A. M. and Warrigton, E. K. 1977. Prosopagnosia: A clinical, psychological, and anatomical study of three patients. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 40: 395-403. (doi:10.1136/jnnp.40.4.395)
78. Wilmer, J. B., Germine, L., Chabris, C. F., Chatterjee, G., Williams, M., Loken, E., & Duchaine, B. (2010). Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107, 5238-5241.
79. Woolrich, M. W., Ripley, B. D., Brady, M. and Smith, S. M. 2001. Temporal autocorrelation in univariate linear modeling of fMRI data. NeuroImage, 14: 1370-1386. (doi:10.1006/nimg.2001.0931)
80. Young, A. W., Hellawell, D. and Hay, D. C. 1987. Configurational information in face perception. Perception, 16: 747-759. (doi:10.1068/p160747)