Processing deficits for familiar and novel faces in patients with left posterior fusiform lesions.

ABSTRACT: Pure alexia (PA) arises from damage to the left posterior fusiform gyrus (pFG) and the striking reading disorder that defines this condition has meant that such patients are often cited as evidence for the specialisation of this region to processing of written words. There is, however, an alternative view that suggests this region is devoted to processing of high acuity foveal input, which is particularly salient for complex visual stimuli like letter strings. Previous reports have highlighted disrupted processing of non-linguistic visual stimuli after damage to the left pFG, both for familiar and unfamiliar objects and also for novel faces. This study explored the nature of face processing deficits in patients with left pFG damage. Identification of famous faces was found to be compromise

SUBMITTER: Roberts DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4643682 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature