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There is a tendency in the literature to treat prosopagnosia as if it were a single disorder, dependent on the disruption of a unique mechanism and associated with a stereotyped lesional picture. The search for a common interpretation has from time to time privileged different aspects of the disorder, but the failure to reach a general consensus insinuates that an analytical approach, aiming at distinguishing, rather than unifying the manifestations of prosopagnosia, may be more fruitful. After all, nobody would conceive of aphasia as a single deficit and even for visual agnosia at least two forms have been envisaged.
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- E. De Renzi
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- Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Hadyn D. Ellis - Psychological Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
Malcolm A. Jeeves FRSE - Neuropsychology Unit, The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK
Freda Newcombe - Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK
Andy Young
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De Renzi, E. (1986). Current Issues on Prosopagnosia. In: Ellis, H.D., Jeeves, M.A., Newcombe, F., Young, A. (eds) Aspects of Face Processing. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4420-6\_26
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