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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

4. Can I Recognize Faces Without Knowing it? Evidence of Covert Face Recognition in Prosopagnosia

Author : Davide Rivolta

Published in: Prosopagnosia

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

A brain lesion can often cause a dysfunction of a specific cognitive domain. For example, some brain lesions can leave individuals unable to remember old and new events of their lives, such as what they did the night before, where they completed their studies or their appointment with the dentist scheduled for next week.

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Footnotes
1
Very often the lesions causing neglect occur in the right hemisphere and therefore their symptoms often include lack of attention to the left side of their visual field
 
2
The list of behavioural tasks that can be adopted for the investigation of covert face recognition is longer and includes tasks like the “Face-name interference task”, the “Sorting task” and the “Learning task”. These have only been adopted in acquired prosopagnosia and, as such, are not reported here. The interested reader should refer, for instance, to Schweinberger and Burton (2003).
 
3
We cannot, however, exclude that MEG activity within the right lateral occipital lobe and the right fusiform gyrus will show abnormal features when considering components occurring later than the M170, such as the M400. Future research will clarify this issue.
 
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Metadata
Title
Can I Recognize Faces Without Knowing it? Evidence of Covert Face Recognition in Prosopagnosia
Author
Davide Rivolta
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Prosopagnosia

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-40783-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-40784-0

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40784-0_4