Persistent task-specific impairment of holistic face processing in acquired prosopagnosia.

ABSTRACT: Face recognition deficits observed in Acquired Prosopagnosia are typically associated with impaired holistic processing. Nonetheless, whether this deficit is task-dependent, face-specific, and persistent over time has been under investigated. The present study examined the role of holistic processing in a case of acquired prosopagnosia (Patient DS). Patient DS, along with several neurotypical participants, completed the three standard measures of holistic face processing: the face inversion, part-whole, and composite face tasks, as well as a measure of non-face global processing: the Navon task. Our single-case analyses indicated that, compared to neurotypical participants, DS showed (1) impaired inversion effects, but (2) comparable part-whole and composite face effects, as well as (3) co

SUBMITTER: Leong BQZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12678792 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature