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Normal Recognition of Emotion in a Prosopagnosic

In the leading model of face perception, facial identity and facial expressions of emotion are recognized by separate mechanisms. In this report, we provide evidence supporting the independence of these processes by documenting an individual with severely impaired recognition of facial identity yet...

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Published in:Perception (London) 2003-01, Vol.32 (7), p.827-838
Main Authors: Duchaine, Bradley C, Parker, Holly, Nakayama, Ken
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:In the leading model of face perception, facial identity and facial expressions of emotion are recognized by separate mechanisms. In this report, we provide evidence supporting the independence of these processes by documenting an individual with severely impaired recognition of facial identity yet normal recognition of facial expressions of emotion. NM, a 40-year-old prosopagnosic, showed severely impaired performance on five of six tests of facial identity recognition. In contrast, she performed in the normal range on four different tests of emotion recognition. Because the tests of identity recognition and emotion recognition assessed her abilities in a variety of ways, these results provide solid support for models in which identity recognition and emotion recognition are performed by separate processes.
ISSN:0301-0066
1468-4233
DOI:10.1068/p5067