Face and Word Recognition Can Be Selectively Affected by Brain Injury or Developmental Disorders.

ABSTRACT: Face and word recognition have traditionally been thought to rely on highly specialised and relatively independent cognitive processes. Some of the strongest evidence for this has come from patients with seemingly category-specific visual perceptual deficits such as pure prosopagnosia, a selective face recognition deficit, and pure alexia, a selective word recognition deficit. Together, the patterns of impaired reading with preserved face recognition and impaired face recognition with preserved reading constitute a double dissociation. The existence of these selective deficits has been questioned over the past decade. It has been suggested that studies describing patients with these pure deficits have failed to measure the supposedly preserved functions using sensitive enough measures, and

SUBMITTER: Robotham RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5592207 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature