Impairments in the Face-Processing Network in Developmental Prosopagnosia and Semantic Dementia

Conclusions: These two disorders of face processing represent clinically distinguishable disturbances along a right hemisphere face-processing network: DP, characterized by early configural agnosia for faces, and SD, characterized primarily by a multimodal person knowledge disorder. We discuss these preliminary findings in the context of the current literature on the face-processing network; recent studies suggest an additional right anterior temporal, unimodal face familiarity-memory deficit consistent with an “associative prosopagnosia.”
Source: Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology - Category: Neurology Tags: Original Studies Source Type: research