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Perceptual and memorial impairment in developmental prosopagnosia.

Ulrich, Philip, Wilkinson, David T., Ferguson, Heather J., Bindemann, Markus, Johnston, Robert A. (2014) Perceptual and memorial impairment in developmental prosopagnosia. In: Experimental Psychology Society Meeting Symposium: Recent advances in developmental prosopagnosia research, 15th - 17th April 2014, Kent, UK. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:51294)

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Abstract

Despite the high suspected prevalence of developmental prosopagnosia, diagnostic criteria are informal, current treatment approaches lack trials validation, and, given the relatively small number of group studies, the relative integrity of underlying perceptual and memory processes remains unclear. To begin to address these shortcomings, we administered a large battery of behavioural tests to twenty one individuals with self-reported face recognition difficulties. Ten of these individuals were subsequently classified as developmentally prosopagnosic based on the most widely used assessments - the Cambridge Face Memory Test and famous faces naming test. Relative to a control sample (n=103), the majority of these individuals performed poorly on tests of memory but not perception. These results help clarify the nature of impairment in developmental prosopagnosia, and also guide the development of novel therapies such as caloric vestibular stimulation, a technique that we have begun to apply to this population and which, as will be described, may hold promise.

Item Type: Conference or workshop item (Paper)
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: P.I.N. Ulrich
Date Deposited: 30 Oct 2015 15:09 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 10:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51294 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Ulrich, Philip.

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Wilkinson, David T..

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Ferguson, Heather J..

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Bindemann, Markus.

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Johnston, Robert A..

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