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A W Young1, G W Humphreys, M J Riddoch

  • 1MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge, U.K.

Neuropsychologia
|June 1, 1994
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Individuals with face recognition difficulties show varied impairments in face imagery. These findings suggest multi-stage causation for prosopagnosia, challenging unitary explanations.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Investigating face imagery in individuals with profound face recognition difficulties.
  • Examining the hypothesis of a unitary cause for prosopagnosia versus multi-stage causation.

Observation:

  • Two individuals, H.J.A. and P.H., with prosopagnosia, were tested on face imagery tasks.
  • H.J.A. has perceptual integration deficits; P.H. exhibits higher-level processing deficits with covert recognition.
  • Tasks involved imaging single faces and comparing sets of three faces based on configuration or features.

Findings:

  • P.H. demonstrated severe impairment across all face imagery tasks.
  • H.J.A. showed preserved ability for single face imagery and feature-based comparisons.

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  • H.J.A. exhibited severe impairment in configuration-based comparisons, indicating a specific deficit.

    • Implications:

    • Results challenge the notion of a single underlying cause for prosopagnosia.
    • Findings support a multi-stage model of face recognition and imagery deficits.
    • The level of the initial recognition deficit influences the specific nature of face imagery impairments.