Face-specific processing in the human fusiform gyrus
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Face recognition: A literature survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Detailed Exploration of Face-related Processing in Congenital Prosopagnosia: 1. Behavioral Findings
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Behavioral Change and Its Neural Correlates in Visual Agnosia After Expertise Training
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissociations of Face and Object Recognition in Developmental Prosopagnosia
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Prosopagnosia as a Deficit in Encoding Curved Surface
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Activation of fusiform face area by greebles is related to face similarity but not expertise
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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We argue that the current literature on prosopagnosia fails to demonstrate unequivocal evidence for a disproportionate impairment for faces as compared to nonface objects. Two prosopagnosic subjects were tested for the discrimination of objects from several categories (face as well as nonface) at different levels of categorization (basic, subordinate, and exemplar levels). Several dependent measures were obtained including accuracy, signal detection measures, and response times. The results from Experiments 1 to 4 demonstrate that, in simultaneous-matching tasks, response times may reveal impairments with nonface objects in subjects whose error rates only indicate a face deficit. The results from Experiments 5 and 6 show that, given limited stimulus presentation times for face and nonface objects, the same subjects may demonstrate a deficit for both stimulus categories in sensitivity. In Experiments 7, 8 and 9, a match-to-sample task that places greater demands on memory led to comparable recognition sensitivity with both face and nonface objects. Regardless of object category, the prosopagnosic subjects were more affected by manipulations of the level of categorization than normal controls. This result raises questions regarding neuropsychological evidence for the modularity of face recognition, as well as its theoretical and methodological foundations.