Face perception is category-specific: Evidence from normal body perception in acquired prosopagnosia

Cognition

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 88-94

  Susilo, Tirta ^a   Yovel, Galit ^b   Barton, Jason J S ^c   Duchaine, Bradley ^a  

^a Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body; Expertise; Face; Inversion; Perception; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE PROFILE; FEMALE; FUSIFORM FACE AREA; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; SELF CONCEPT; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; VISUAL FIELD;

BODY; EXPERTISE; FACE; INVERSION; PERCEPTION; PROSOPAGNOSIA;

ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; TORSO;

EID: 84880347629     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.06.004     Document Type: Article

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