Book chapter
Prosopagnosia
Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, pp.1151-1155
2010
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00607-0
Abstract
Prosopagnosia is a neurological term denoting an acquired condition in which patients lose the ability to recognize familiar faces. Prosopagnosia is usually caused by cerebrovascular disease, head injury, or cerebral tumors. There are three main types, namely, pure associative prosopagnosia, apperceptive prosopagnosia, and developmental prosopagnosia. In the latter type, individuals never develop a normal capacity for learning faces, and display a lifelong deficit. By contrast to the pure associative and apperceptive prosopagnosia involving bilateral brain damage, much still remains unknown about the neural mechanisms of developmental prosopagnosia.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Prosopagnosia
- Creators
- D TranelN.L Denburg
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, pp.1151-1155
- DOI
- 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00607-0
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2010
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070578402771
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