The present thesis sought to investigate optimal lineup construction methods that enhance
ability to discriminate between innocent and guilty suspects. Firstly, I highlight the need for …

Résumé Lire un mot ou discriminer un visage parmi des centaines d'autres sont des
activités quotidiennes pour l'Homme. L'apparente simplicité de ces actes liée à l'extrême …

The recent interest in clinical neuropsychology to extrapolate from the test scores of brain
damaged patients to their performance in everyday life, has resulted in an appeal for more …

From a perceptual and a cognitive point of view, processing of information in normal
listening conditions represents a quite effortless task for the normal hearing individual in a …

Visual agnosia is the condition following cortical insult that results in an inability to recognise
visually presented objects. In severe cases all classes of visual object recognition may be …

The consequences of a stroke affect not only elementary input and output functions of the
brain, producing anesthesia, blindness, deafness, or paralysis, as evidenced by routine …

Reports of cases of patients suffering from an impairment of the brain function of face
recognition have appeared in the medical literature since 1923. In some instances the cause …

It has frequently been demonstrated that severe amnesic patients may show preserved or
partially preserved learning abilities in a variety of tasks. Hirst, amnesics can acquire …

Résumé Nous décrivons le cas d'un patient JO qui a présenté, dans les suites d'une
encéphalite herpétique, une altération sévère de ses connaissances sémantiques. Outre …

Recognition memory for faces is a neurocognitive capacity that can be disrupted when right
hemisphere (RH) damage occurs. Face recognition memory (FRM) has been studied …