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  • Psychology

Background:

  • Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a lifelong condition characterized by severe face recognition deficits.
  • It remains debated whether DP impairments are specific to face identity or also affect face expression processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the selectivity of face processing deficits in developmental prosopagnosia.
  • To differentiate impairments in processing face identity versus face expression.

Main Methods:

  • A large sample of individuals with DP (N=124) completed three matching tasks assessing identity and expression processing.
  • Tasks were performed in upright and inverted orientations to measure inversion effects, indicating reliance on upright-specific face processing.

Main Results:

  • DPs exhibited significant deficits in discriminating face identity but only minor deficits in discriminating face expression.
  • A reduced inversion effect for identity and a normal inversion effect for expression were observed in DPs.
  • Performance on expression tasks correlated with autism traits, while identity task performance did not.

Conclusions:

  • These findings reveal dissociations between identity and expression processing in DP.
  • The results support the hypothesis that the primary deficit in DP is highly selective to face identity recognition.