Hyperfamiliarity for unknown faces after left lateral temporo‐occipital venous infarction: a double dissociation with prosopagnosia

P Vuilleumier, C Mohr, N Valenza, C Wetzel, T Landis - Brain, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Right hemisphere dominance in face processing is well established and unilateral right
inferior temporo‐occipital damage can result in prosopagnosia. Here, we describe a 21 …

Face-specific impairment in holistic perception following focal lesion of the right anterior temporal lobe

T Busigny, G Van Belle, B Jemel, A Hosein, S Joubert… - Neuropsychologia, 2014 - Elsevier
Recent studies have provided solid evidence for pure cases of prosopagnosia following
brain damage. The patients reported so far have posterior lesions encompassing either or …

Can we lose memories of faces? Content specificity and awareness in a prosopagnosic

NL Etcoff, R Freeman, KR Cave - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1991 - direct.mit.edu
Prosopagnosia is a neurological syndrome in which patients cannot recognize faces.
Kecently it has been shown that some prosopagnosics give evidence of" covert" recognition …

Unilateral damage to the right cerebral hemisphere disrupts the apprehension of whole faces and their component parts

D Wilkinson, P Ko, A Wiriadjaja, P Kilduff… - Neuropsychologia, 2009 - Elsevier
Although most cases of acquired prosopagnosia are accompanied by bilateral brain lesions,
a number also arise following right unilateral lesions. The prevailing consensus is that right …

Holistic perception of the individual face is specific and necessary: evidence from an extensive case study of acquired prosopagnosia

T Busigny, S Joubert, O Felician, M Ceccaldi… - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
We present an extensive investigation (24 experiments) of a new case of prosopagnosia
following right unilateral damage, GG, with the aim of addressing two classical issues:(1) …

A case of prosopagnosia following moderate closed head injury with left hemisphere focal lesion

AJ Mattson, HS Levin, J Grafman - Cortex, 2000 - Elsevier
This study describes a left handed woman with prosopagnosia following traumatic brain
injury with a focal lesion confined to the left-posterior hemisphere. Few cases of …

From covert to overt recognition of faces in a prosopagnosic patient

J Sergent, M PONCET - Brain, 1990 - academic.oup.com
Prosopagnosia is an inability to recognize known persons as a result of a failure to access
relevant memories through the inspection of their faces. The nature of this disturbance, and …

Progressive prosopagnosia associated with selective right temporal lobe atrophy: A new syndrome?

JJ Evans, AJ Heggs, N Antoun, JR Hodges - Brain, 1995 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Summary VH, a 68-year-old right-handed woman, presented with a progressive
deterioration in her ability to recognize faces of familiar people, including friends and …

When the brain remembers, but the patient doesn't: converging fMRI and EEG evidence for covert recognition in a case of prosopagnosia

SR Simon, A Khateb, A Darque, F Lazeyras, E Mayer… - Cortex, 2011 - Elsevier
The role of the occipito-temporal cortex in visual awareness remains an open question and
with respect to faces in particular, it is unclear to what extent the fusiform face area (FFA) …

Components in the visual processing of known and unknown faces

GA Carlesimo, C Caltagirone - Journal of Clinical and …, 1995 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the neural basis and cognitive mechanisms of disorders affecting the
visual processing of human faces. Two patients affected by prosopagnosia (PA), 45 …