Current Issues on Prosopagnosia (original) (raw)

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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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  1. E. De Renzi
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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
    Hadyn D. Ellis
  2. Psychological Laboratory, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
    Malcolm A. Jeeves FRSE
  3. Neuropsychology Unit, The Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, UK
    Freda Newcombe
  4. 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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