Inversion superiority in visual agnosia may be common to a variety of orientation polarised objects besides faces

Selective impairment in recognition of faces (prosopagnosia) resulting from certain localized cortical lesions has been advanced as an argument for a face specific brain module. The argument is claimed to be strengthened by the discovery of an inversion superiority effect in the recognition of faces...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Vision research (Oxford) 1998-09, Vol.38 (18), p.2855-2861
Main Authors: de Gelder, Beatrice, Bachoud-Lévi, Anne-Catherine, Degos, Jean-Denis
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged
Agnosia - etiology
Agnosia - psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Cerebral Hemorrhage - complications
Diseases of visual field, optic nerve, optic chiasma and optic tracts
Face
Face perception
Female
Form Perception
Hematoma - complications
Humans
Inversion effect
Medical sciences
Object perception
Occipital Lobe
Ophthalmology
Prosopagnosia
Psychological Tests
Shoes
Visual agnosia
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Selective impairment in recognition of faces (prosopagnosia) resulting from certain localized cortical lesions has been advanced as an argument for a face specific brain module. The argument is claimed to be strengthened by the discovery of an inversion superiority effect in the recognition of faces by a prosopagnosic patient(Farah et al., Vis Res 1995b;35:2089–2093). The present paper reports an inversion superiority effect in the recognition of faces and shoes in a visual agnosic patient. The finding raises the possibility that several classes of orientationally polarized objects, of which shoes and faces are examples, will exhibit inversion superiority.
ISSN:0042-6989
1878-5646
DOI:10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00458-6