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Visual mental imagery in congenital prosopagnosia

Grüter, Thomas, Grüter, Martina, Bell, Vaughan, Carbon, Claus-Christian·2009·Neuroscience Letters

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Congenital prosopagnosia (cPA) is a selective impairment in the visual learning and recognition of faces without detectable brain damage or malformation. There is evidence that it can be inherited in an autosomal dominant mode of inheritance. We assessed the capacity for visual mental imagery in 53 people with cPA using an adapted Marks' VVIQ (Vividness of Visual Imaging Questionnaire). The mean score of the prosopagnosic group showed the lowest mental imagery scores ever published for a non-brain damaged group. In a subsample of 12 people with cPA, we demonstrated that the cPA is a deficit of configural face processing. We suggest that the 'VVIQ-PA' (VVIQ-Prosopagnosia) questionnaire can help to confirm the diagnosis of cPA. Poor mental imagery, a configural face processing impairment and clinical prosopagnosia should be considered as symptoms of a yet poorly understood hereditary cerebral dysfunction.

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Authors
Grüter, T., Grüter, M., Bell, V., & Carbon, C.-C.
Affiliations
  • University of Bamberg (DE)
  • King's College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Carbon, Claus-Christian
Venue
Neuroscience Letters
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-04
Volume
453
Issue
3
Pages
135-140
ISSN
0304-3940 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1997391425
Cited by
92
References
49
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1.78
Type
journal article
Language
en
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closed
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  • Neuroscience Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Face recognition and analysis
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords
congenital prosopagnosia, visual imagery, configural face processing, face recognition (cognition), Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire, autosomal dominant inheritance
MeSH terms
Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Face, Humans, Imagination, Middle Aged, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Prosopagnosia, Young Adult

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