Prosopagnosia
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- Created on: 08-06-13 22:18
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- Prosopagnosia
- Prosopagnosia is defined as the ability to recognise everyday objects but not faces.
- Supports the idea that face recognition is different to normal perception.
- Rumiati- Mr W suffered brain damage and couldn't recognise faces but could interpret expressions correctly.
- Bruce and Young's theory would suggest that stages 1 and 2 of facial recognition are not working.
- Bornstein- brain damaged farmer couldn't recognise faces or his own cows.
- - Gouthia-people with prosopagnosia can also have other object recognition problems too.
- Gouthier and Tarr- FFS activated when tested on things people knew about.
- - Case studies are the main support for this research.
- Farah- due to lack of inter-laboratory verification.
- Alternative theory of Holistic Processing.
- Prosopagnosia is defined as the ability to recognise everyday objects but not faces.
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