Impaired recognition of faces and objects in dyslexia: Evidence for ventral stream dysfunction?
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OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to establish whether or not dyslexics are impaired at the recognition of faces and other complex nonword visual objects. This would be expected based on a meta-analysis revealing that children and adult dyslexics show functional abnormalities within the left fusiform gyrus, a brain region high up in the ventral visual stream, which is thought to support the recognition of words, faces, and other objects. METHOD: 20 adult dyslexics (M = 29 years) and 20 matched typical readers (M = 29 years) participated in the study. One dyslexic-typical reader pair was excluded based on Adult Reading History Questionnaire scores and IS-FORM reading scores. Performance was measured on 3 high-level visual processing tasks: the Cambridge Face Memory Test, the Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Test, and the Vanderbilt Expertise Test. RESULTS: People with dyslexia are impaired in their recognition of faces and other visually complex objects. Their holistic processing of faces appears to be intact, suggesting that dyslexics may instead be specifically impaired at part-based processing of visual objects. CONCLUSIONS: The difficulty that people with dyslexia experience with reading might be the most salient manifestation of a more general high-level visual deficit.
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- Authors
- Sigurdardottir, H. M., Ívarsson, E., Kristinsdóttir, K., & Kristjánsson, Á.
- Affiliations
- University of Iceland (IS)
- Venue
- Neuropsychology
- Published
- 2015
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 739-750
- ISSN
- 0894-4105 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-1559
- OpenAlex
- W2090883742
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3
- FWCI
- 11.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuropsychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Iceland
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Keywords
- dyslexia, face recognition (cognition), object recognition, ventral stream, fusiform gyrus, holistic face processing
- MeSH terms
- Facial Recognition, Adolescent, Adult, Color Perception, Dyslexia, Female, Form Perception, Humans, Male, Memory, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychomotor Performance, Surveys and Questionnaires, Reading, Temporal Lobe, Visual Pathways, Visual Perception, Recognition, Psychology, Young Adult
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