A family at risk: Congenital prosopagnosia, poor face recognition and visuoperceptual deficits within one family

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-63

  Johnen, Andreas ^a,b   Schmukle, Stefan C ^c   Hüttenbrink, Judith ^a   Kischka, Claudia ^a   Kennerknecht, Ingo ^a   Dobel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital; Developmental; Face processing; Family study; Perceptual organization; Prosopagnosia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPLICATION; FACE; FAMILY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PEDIGREE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FACE; FAMILY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PEDIGREE; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898921479     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.03.013     Document Type: Article

References (79)

1. Akshoomoff N.A., Stiles J. Developmental trends in visuospatial analysis and planning: I. Copying a complex figure. Neuropsychology 1995, 9(3):364-377.
2. Anderson P., Anderson V., Garth J. Assessment and development of organizational ability: The Rey Complex Figure Organizational Strategy Score (RCF-OSS). The Clinical Neuropsychologist 2001, 15(1):81-94.
3. Avidan G., Tanzer M., Behrmann M. Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 2011, 49(9):2541-2552.
4. Behrmann M, Avidan G. Congenital prosopagnosia: Face-blind from birth. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2005, 2(1):245-268.
5. Behrmann M., Avidan G., Marotta J.J., Kimchi R. Detailed exploration of face-related processing in congenital prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral findings. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005, 17(7):1130-1149.
6. Bonello P.J., Rapport L.J., Millis S.R. Psychometric properties of the visual object and space perception battery in normal older adults. The Clinical Neuropsychologist 1997, 11(4):436-442.
7. Bowles D.C., McKone E., Dawel A., Duchaine B., Palermo R., Schmalzl L., et al. Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant-stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2009, 26(5):423-455.
8. Busigny T., Rossion B. Holistic processing impairment can be restricted to faces in acquired prosopagnosia: Evidence from the global/local Navon effect. Journal of Neuropsychology 2011, 5(1):1-14.
9. De Haan E.H.F. A familiar factor in the development of face recognition deficits. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 1999, 21(3):312-315.
10. Deckersbach T., Savage C.R., Henin A., Mataix-Cols D., Otto M.W., Wilhelm S., et al. Reliability and validity of a scoring system for measuring organizational approach in the Complex Figure Test. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2000, 22(5):640-648.
11. Dennett H.W., McKone E., Tvashmi R., Hall A., Pidcock M., Edwards M., et al. 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 2012, 44:587-605.
12. Dinkelacker V., Grüter M., Klaver P., Grüter T., Specht K., Weis S., et al. Congenital prosopagnosia: Multistage anatomical and functional deficits in face processing circuitry. Journal of Neurology 2010, 258(5):770-782.
13. Dobel C., Bölte J., Aicher M., Schweinberger S.R. Prosopagnosia without apparent cause: Overview and diagnosis of six cases. Cortex 2007, 43(6):718-733.
14. Dobel C., Putsche C., Zwitserlood P., Junghöfer M. Early left-hemispheric dysfunction of face processing in congenital prosopagnosia: An MEG study. PLoS One 2008, 3(6):e2326.
15. Duchaine B., Germine L., Nakayama K. Family resemblance: Ten family members with prosopagnosia and within-class object agnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2007, 24(4):419-430.
16. Duchaine B., Nakayama K. Developmental prosopagnosia and the Benton Facial Recognition test. Neurology 2004, 62(7):1219-1220.
17. Duchaine B., Nakayama K. Dissociations of face and object recognition in developmental prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2005, 17(2):249-261.
18. Duchaine B., Nakayama K. Developmental prosopagnosia: A window to content-specific face processing. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 2006, 16(2):166-173.
19. Duchaine B., Nakayama K. The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44(4):576-585.
20. Duchaine B., Weidenfeld A. An evaluation of two commonly used tests of unfamiliar face recognition. Neuropsychologia 2003, 41(6):713-720.
21. Duchaine B., Yovel G., Butterworth E.J., Nakayama K. Prosopagnosia as an impairment to face-specific mechanisms: Elimination of the alternative hypotheses in a developmental case. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2006, 23(5):714-747.
22. Duchaine B., Yovel G., Nakayama K. No global processing deficit in the Navon task in 14 developmental prosopagnosics. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2007, 2(2):104-113.
23. Farah M.J. Is face recognition "special"? Evidence from neuropsychology. Behavioural Brain Research 1996, 76(1-2):181-189.
24. Farah M.J., Wilson K.D., Drain H.M., Tanaka J.N. The inverted face inversion effect in prosopagnosia: Evidence for mandatory, face-specific perceptual mechanisms. Vision Research 1995, 35(14):2089-2093.
25. Farah M.J., Wilson K.D., Drain H.M., Tanaka J.N. What is "special" about face perception?. Psychological Review 1998, 105(3):482-498.
26. Gainotti G. Not all patients labeled as "prosopagnosia" have a real prosopagnosia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2010, 32(7):763-766.
27. Galaburda A.M., Duchaine B. Developmental disorders of vision. Neurologic Clinics 2003, 21(3):687-707.
28. Germine L., Cashdollar N., Düzel E., Duchaine B. A new selective developmental deficit: Impaired object recognition with normal face recognition. Cortex 2011, 47(5):598-607.
29. Grueter M., Grueter T., Bell V., Horst J., Laskowski W., Sperling K., et al. Hereditray prosopagnosia: The first case series. Cortex 2007, 43(6):734-749.
30. Haxby J., Hoffman E., Gobbini M. The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2000, 4(6):223-233.
31. Herzmann G., Danthiir V. Toward a comprehensive test battery for face cognition: Assessment of the tasks. Behavior 2008, 40(3):840-857.
32. Jones R., Tranel D. Severe developmental prosopagnosia in a child with superior intellect. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2001, 23(3):265-273.
33. Kanwisher N., McDermott J., Chun M.M. The fusiform face area: A module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for face perception. The Journal of Neuroscience 1997, 17(11):4302-4311.
34. Kennerknecht I., Grüter T., Welling B., Wentzek S. First report of prevalence of non-syndromic hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA). American Journal of Medical Genetics 2006, 1622:1617-1622.
35. Kennerknecht I., Ho N.Y., Wong V.C.N. Prevalence of hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA) in Hong Kong Chinese population. American Journal of Medical Genetics 2008, 146A(22):2863-2870.
36. Kennerknecht I., Kischka C., Stemper C., Elze T., Stollhoff R. Heritability of face recognition. Face analysis, modeling and recognition systems (163-188) 2011, InTech-Open Access Publisher, Rijeka, Croatia. T. Barbu (Ed.).
37. Kennerknecht I., Pluempe N., Edwards S., Raman R. Hereditary prosopagnosia (HPA): The first report outside the Caucasian population. Journal of Human Genetics 2007, 52(3):230-236.
38. Kennerknecht I., Pluempe N., Welling B. Congenital prosopagnosia-A common hereditary cognitive dysfunction in humans. Frontiers in Bioscience 2008, 13:3150-3158.
39. Kramer J.H., Wells A.M. The role of perceptual bias in complex figure recall. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology 2004, 26(6):838-845.
40. Kress T., Daum I. Developmental prosopagnosia: A review. Behavioural Neurology 2003, 14(3):109-121.
41. Lange J., De Lussanet M., Kuhlmann S., Zimmermann A., Lappe M., Zwitserlood P., et al. Impairments of biological motion perception in congenital prosopagnosia. PLoS One 2009, 4(10):e7414.
42. Le Grand R., Cooper P.A., Mondloch C.J., Lewis T.L., Sagiv N., De Gelder B., et al. What aspects of face processing are impaired in developmental prosopagnosia?. Brain and Cognition 2006, 61(2):139-158.
43. Le Grand R., Mondloch C.J., Maurer D., Brent H.P. Impairment in holistic face processing following early visual deprivation. Psychological Science 2004, 15(11):762-768.
44. Lee Y., Duchaine B., Wilson H.R., Nakayama K. Three cases of developmental prosopagnosia from one family: Detailed neuropsychological and psychophysical investigation of face processing. Cortex 2010, 46(8):949-964.
45. Lezak M.D., Howieson D.B., Bigler E.D., Tranel D. Neuropsychological assessment 2012, Oxford University Press, New York. 5th ed.
46. Lobmaier J.S., Bölte J., Mast F.W., Dobel C. Configural and featural processing in humans with congenital prosopagnosia. Advances in Cognitive Psychology 2010, 6:23-34.
47. Maurer D., Grand R.L., Mondloch C.J. The many faces of configural processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2002, 6(6):255-260.
48. Mazzuchi A., Biber C. Is prosopagnosia more frequent in males than in females?. Cortex 1983, 19(4):509-516.
49. McGugin R.W., Richler J.J., Herzmann G., Speegle M., Gauthier I. The Vanderbilt Expertise Test reveals domain-general and domain-specific sex effects in object recognition. Vision Research 2012, 69:10-22.
50. Meyers J., Meyers K. Rey Complex Figure and Recognition Trial Professional manual 1995, Psychological Assessment Resources, Odessa FL.
51. Moscovitch M., Winocur G., Behrmann M. What is special about face recognition? Nineteen experiments on a person with visual object agnosia and dyslexia but normal face recognition. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1997, 9:555-604.
52. Newman P.D., Krikorian R. Encoding and complex figure recall. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 2001, 7(6):728-733.
53. Omar R., Rohrer J.D., Hailstone J.C., Warren J.D. Structural neuroanatomy of face processing in frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 2011, 82(12):1341-1343.
54. Palermo R., Willis M.L., Rivolta D., McKone E., Wilson C.E., Calder A.J. Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia 2011, 49(5):1226-1235.
55. Payne R.W., Jones H.G. Statisics for the investigation of individual cases. Journal of Clinical Psychology 1957, 13(2):115-121.
56. Ramlall S., Chipps J., Bhigjee A.I., Pillay P.J. The sensitivity and specificity of subjective memory complaints and the Subjective Memory Rating Scale, Deterioration Cognitive Observee, Mini-Mental State Examination, Six-Item Screener and Clock Drawing Test in dementia screening. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2013, 36:119-135.
57. Rehnmann J., Herlitz A. Women remember more faces than men do. Acta Psychologica 2007, 124:344-355.
58. Rey A. L[U+05F3]examen psychologique dans les cas d[U+05F3]encéphalopathie traumatique. Les problems./The psychological examination in cases of traumatic encephalopathy. Problems. Archives de Psychologie 1941, 28:215-285.
59. Robbins R., McKone E. No face-like processing for objects-of-expertise in three behavioural tasks. Cognition 2007, 103(1):34-79.
60. Rotshtein P., Geng J.J., Driver J., Dolan R.J. Role of features and second-order spatial-relations in face discrimination, face recognition, and individual face skills: Behavioral and fMRI data. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2007, 19(9):1435-1452.
61. Russell R., Duchaine B., Nakayama K. Super-recognizers: People with extraordinary face recognition ability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2009, 16(2):252-257.
62. Schmalzl L, Palermo R., Coltheart M. Cognitive heterogeneity in genetically based prosopagnosia: A family study. Journal of Neuropsychology 2008, 2(1):99-117.
63. Schmalzl L, Palermo R., Harris I.M., Coltheart M. Face inversion superiority in a case of prosopagnosia following congenital brain abnormalities: What can it tell us about the specificity and origin of face-processing mechanisms?. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2009, 26(3):286-306.
64. Snowling M., Dawes P., Nash H., Hulme C. Validity of a protocol for adult self-report of dyslexia and related difficulties. Dyslexia 2012, 18(1):1-15.
65. Stollhoff R., Jost J., Elze T., Kennerknecht I. Deficits in long-term recognition memory reveal dissociated subtypes in congenital prosopagnosia. PLoS One 2011, 6(1):e15702.
66. Tanaka J.W., Farah M.J. Parts and wholes in face recognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology 1993, 46(2):225-245.
67. Tree R.R., Wilkie J. Face and object imagery in congenital prosopagnosia: A case series. Cortex 2010, 46(9):1189-1198.
68. Van Belle G., De Graef P., Verfaillie K., Busigny T., Rossion B. Whole not hole: Expert face recognition requires holistic perception. Neuropsychologia 2010, 48(9):2620-2629.
69. Von Cramon D.Y., Mai N., Ziegler W. Neuropsychologische Diagnostik 1995, Chapman and Hall, London.
70. Warrington E.K., James M. Testbatterie für visuelle Objekt- und Raumwahrnehmung 1992, Thames Valley Test Company, Bury St Edmunds.
71. Weigelt S., Koldewyn K., Kanwisher N. Face identity recognition in autism spectrum disorders: A review of behavioral studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 2012, 36(3):1060-1084.
72. Wilhelm O., Herzmann G., Kunina O., Danthiir V., Schacht A., Sommer W. Individual differences in perceiving and recognizing faces-One element of social cognition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2010, 99(3):530-548.
73. Wilmer J.B., Germine L., Chabris C.F., Chatterjee G., Williams M., Loken E., et al. Human face recognition ability is specific and highly heritable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2010, 107(11):5238-5241.
74. Wilmer J.B., Germine L., Chabris C.F., Gerbasi M., Nakayama K. Capturing specific abilities as a window into human individuality: The example of face recognition. Cognitive Neuropsychology 2012, 29(5-6):360-392.
75. Wilson C., Freeman P., Brock J., Burton A., Palermo R. Facial identity recognition in the broader autism phenotype. PLoS One 2010, 5(9):e12876.
76. Yin R.K. Looking at upside-down faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology 1969, 81(1):141-145.
77. Young A.W., De Haan E.H.F., Bauer R.M. Face perception: A very special issue. Journal of Neuropsychology 2008, 2(1):1-14.
78. Young A.W., Hellawell D., Hay D.C. Configural information in face perception. Perception 1987, 16(6):747-759.
79. Zhu Q., Song Y., Hu S., Li X., Tian M., Zhen Z., et al. Heritability of the specific cognitive ability of face perception. Current Biology 2010, 20(2):137-142.