Is the right anterior temporal variant of prosopagnosia a form of 'associative prosopagnosia' or a form of 'multimodal person recognition disorder'?

Neuropsychology Review

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 99-110

  Gainotti, Guido ^a,b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Associative prosopagnosia; Face familiarity feelings; Familiar people identification; Multimodal person recognition disorder; Right anterior temporal lesions

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; REVIEW; TEMPORAL LOBE;

HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84878852573     PISSN: 10407308     EISSN: 15736660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11065-013-9232-7     Document Type: Review

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