Neuropsychologia.
Publisher:
Pergamon Press. Oxford : Pergamon Press
Frequency: Monthly
Country: England
Language: English
Start Year:1963 -
ISSN:
0028-3932 (Print)
1873-3514 (Electronic)
0028-3932 (Linking)
1873-3514 (Electronic)
0028-3932 (Linking)
Impact Factor
2.6
2022
| NLM ID: | 0020713 |
| (DNLM): | N13460000(s) |
| (OCoLC): | 01759703 |
| Coden: | NUPSA6 |
| Classification: | W1 NE342 |
Visual expertise for horses in a case of congenital prosopagnosia. A major question in the domain of face perception is whether faces comprise a distinct visual category that is processed by specialized mechanisms, or whether face processing merely represents an extreme case of visual expertise. Here, we examined O.H, a 22 years old woman with congenital prosopagnosia (CP), who despite her severe deficits in face processing, acquired superior recognition skills for horses. To compare the nature of face and horse processing, we utilised the inversion manipulation, known to disproportionally affect faces compared to other objects, with both faces and horses. O....