Prosopagnosia: a clinical, psychological, and anatomical study of three patients.

Whiteley, A. M.; Warrington, Elizabeth K.

doi:10.1136/jnnp.40.4.395

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“…Evidence from numerous studies suggests that the FFA responds to faces more than any other class of visual stimulus (Haxby et al 1994;Puce et al 1995;Kanwisher et al 1997;Kanwisher 2000). Lesion studies have confirmed that damage to this area of the brain results in prospagnosia, or the inability to recognize faces (Damasio et al 1990;Whiteley and Warrington 1977).…”

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The Role of Face Familiarity in Eye Tracking of Faces by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Sterling

Dawson

Murias

et al. 2008

J Autism Dev Disord

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It has been shown that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) demonstrate normal activation in the fusiform gyrus when viewing familiar, but not unfamiliar faces. The current study utilized eye tracking to investigate patterns of attention underlying familiar versus unfamiliar face processing in ASD. Eye movements of 18 typically developing participants and 17 individuals with ASD were recorded while passively viewing three face categories: unfamiliar non-repeating faces, a repeating highly familiar face, and a repeating previously unfamiliar face. Results suggest that individuals with ASD do not exhibit more normative gaze patterns when viewing familiar faces. A second task assessed facial recognition accuracy and response time for familiar and novel faces. The groups did not differ on accuracy or reaction times.

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The Role of Face Familiarity in Eye Tracking of Faces by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Sterling

Dawson

Murias

et al. 2008

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…Faces are distinguished from other object categories by top-down influences such as social significance or expertise. Indeed, face-specific effects such as face inversion (Farah, Tanaka, & Drain, 1995) or prosopagnosia (Whiteley & Warrington, 1977) were found with other homogeneous categories of expertise (Levine & Calvanio, 1989). Effects that appear to be face specific should, therefore, be compared with nonface stimuli that match the constraints found for faces (Gauthier & Tarr, 1997).…”

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The importance of being expert: Top-down attentional control in visual search with photographs

Hershler

Hochstein

2009

Attention, Perception & Psychophysics

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Two observers looking at the same picture may not see the same thing. To avoid sensory overload, visual information is actively selected for further processing by bottom-up processes, originating within the visual image, and top-down processes, reflecting the motivation and past experiences of the observer. The latter processes could grant categories of significance to the observer a permanent attentional advantage. Nevertheless, evidence for a generalized top-down advantage for specific categories has been limited. In this study, bird and car experts searched for face, car, or bird photographs in a heterogeneous display of photographs of real objects. Bottom-up influences were ruled out by presenting both groups of experts with identical displays. Faces and targets of expertise had a clear advantage over novice targets, indicating a permanent top-down preference for favored categories. A novel type of analysis of reaction times over the visual field suggests that the advantage for expert objects is achieved by broader detection windows, allowing observers to scan greater parts of the visual field for the presence of favored targets during each fixation.

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“…Duchaine & Nakayama, in press;McNeil & Warrington, 1993;Nunn, Postma & Pearson, 2001;Whiteley & Warrington, 1977).…”

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The fusiform face area is not sufficient for face recognition: Evidence from a patient with dense prosopagnosia and no occipital face area

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. (2006) 'The fusiform face area is not su cient for face recognition : evidence from a patient with dense prosopagnosia and no occipital face area.', Neuropsychologia., 44 (4). pp. 594-609. Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

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Prosopagnosia: a clinical, psychological, and anatomical study of three patients.

Cited by 179 publications

References 19 publications

The Role of Face Familiarity in Eye Tracking of Faces by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

The Role of Face Familiarity in Eye Tracking of Faces by Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders

The importance of being expert: Top-down attentional control in visual search with photographs

The fusiform face area is not sufficient for face recognition: Evidence from a patient with dense prosopagnosia and no occipital face area

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