Visual mental imagery in congenital prosopagnosia
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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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People with prosopagnosia have, on average, reduced imagery vividness.
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Self-citation
- 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
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- 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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