کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
942248 925120 2012 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Impaired integration of emotional faces and affective body context in a rare case of developmental visual agnosia
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Impaired integration of emotional faces and affective body context in a rare case of developmental visual agnosia
چکیده انگلیسی

In the current study we examined the recognition of facial expressions embedded in emotionally expressive bodies in case LG, an individual with a rare form of developmental visual agnosia (DVA) who suffers from severe prosopagnosia. Neuropsychological testing demonstrated that LG’s agnosia is characterized by profoundly impaired visual integration. Unlike individuals with typical developmental prosopagnosia who display specific difficulties with face identity (but typically not expression) recognition, LG was also impaired at recognizing isolated facial expressions. By contrast, he successfully recognized the expressions portrayed by faceless emotional bodies handling affective paraphernalia. When presented with contextualized faces in emotional bodies his ability to detect the emotion expressed by a face did not improve even if it was embedded in an emotionally-congruent body context. Furthermore, in contrast to controls, LG displayed an abnormal pattern of contextual influence from emotionally-incongruent bodies. The results are interpreted in the context of a general integration deficit in DVA, suggesting that impaired integration may extend from the level of the face to the level of the full person.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cortex - Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2012, Pages 689–700
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