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Face perception and within-category discrimination in prosopagnosia

M J Farah1, K L Levinson, K L Klein

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6196, USA.

Neuropsychologia
|June 1, 1995
PubMed
Summary

Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is a specific impairment in recognizing faces, not just general visual difficulty. This study confirms face recognition is uniquely affected in prosopagnosia.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Prosopagnosia is characterized by impaired face recognition but intact object recognition.
  • Previous hypotheses suggested this dissociation stems from face recognition's inherent difficulty or need for fine discrimination.