Epihova, Gabriela, Cook, Richard and Andrews, Timothy J. orcid.org/0000-0001-8255-9120 (2023) Recognition of animal faces is impaired in developmental prosopagnosia. Cognition. 105477. ISSN 0010-0277
Abstract
An on-going debate in psychology and neuroscience concerns the way faces and objects are represented. Domain-specific theories suggest that faces are processed via a specialised mechanism, separate from objects. Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental disorder in which there is a deficit in the ability to recognize conspecific (human) faces. It is unclear, however, whether prosopagnosia also affects recognition of heterospecific (animal) faces. To address this question, we compared recognition performance with human and animal faces in neurotypical controls and participants with DP. We found that DPs showed deficits in the recognition of both human and animal faces compared to neurotypical controls. In contrast to, we found no group-level deficit in the recognition of animate or inanimate non-face objects in DPs. Using an individual-level approach, we demonstrate that in 60% of cases in which face recognition is impaired, there is a concurrent deficit with animal faces. Together, these results show that DPs have a general deficit in the recognition of faces that encompass a range of configural and morphological structures.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors |
Keywords: | Animal face,Developmental prosopagnosia,Face recognition,Object recognition |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2023 08:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 19:19 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105477 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105477 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201768 |
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