Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10465429 | Neuropsychologia | 2011 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
⺠Congenital prosopagnosic individuals outperform controls on face perception task. ⺠This results from reliance on local rather than global face processing. ⺠A local bias is also evident in a task involving processing of non-faces stimuli. ⺠Impaired face recognition is correlated with increased local bias. ⺠An impairment in global processing may underlie congenital prosopagnosia.
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Authors
Galia Avidan, Michal Tanzer, Marlene Behrmann,