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SUBMITTER: Lange J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2756626 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lange Joachim J de Lussanet Marc M Kuhlmann Simone S Zimmermann Anja A Lappe Markus M Zwitserlood Pienie P Dobel Christian C
PloS one 20091012 10
Prosopagnosia is a deficit in recognizing people from their faces. Acquired prosopagnosia results after brain damage, developmental or congenital prosopagnosia (CP) is not caused by brain lesion, but has presumably been present from early childhood onwards. Since other sensory, perceptual, and cognitive abilities are largely spared, CP is considered to be a stimulus-specific deficit, limited to face processing. Given that recent behavioral and imaging studies indicate a close relationship of fac ...[more]