Faces play a crucial role in social interactions. Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) refers to the lifelong difficulty in recognizing faces despite the absence of obvious signs of brain …
Humans can recollect past events in details (recollection) and/or know that an object, person, or place has been encountered before (familiarity). During the last two decades …
Patient PS sustained her dramatic brain injury thirty years ago, in 1992, the same year as the first report of a neuroimaging study of human face recognition. The present paper …
Focal anterior temporal lobe degeneration often preferentially affects the left or right hemisphere. While patients with left-predominant anterior temporal lobe atrophy show …
Post-mortem studies show that focal anterior temporal lobe (ATL) neurodegeneration is most often caused by frontotemporal lobar degeneration TDP-43 type C pathology. Clinically …
The functional importance of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) has come to prominence in two active, albeit unconnected literatures—(i) face recognition and (ii) semantic memory. To …
A key challenge for neurobiological models of social cognition is to elucidate whether brain regions are specialised for that domain. In recent years, discussion surrounding the role of …
The first minor aim of this synthetical historical survey consisted in showing that the discovery of the internal organization of language within the left hemisphere has been …
C Piccininni, C Marra, D Quaranta, C Papagno… - Neuropsychologia, 2023 - Elsevier
We administered to large groups of patients with neoplastic or degenerative damage affecting the right or left ATL, the 'Famous People Recognition Battery'(FPRB), in which …