Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Developmental prosopagnosics have widespread selectivity reductions across category-selective visual cortex.
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- Perceptual heterogeneity in developmental prosopagnosia: The role of the right OFA.Neuropsychologia · 2026Article
- Gyral Crowns Contribute to the Cortical Infrastructure of Human Face Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- The first comprehensive case study of early-emerging prosopometamorphopsia.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Developmental prosopagnosics have normal spatial integration in posterior ventral face-selective regions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Social Interaction Anxiety in Developmental Prosopagnosia: Prevalence, Severity, and Individual Differences.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2025Article
- Left hemisphere abnormalities in face-selective activation and functional connectivity in developmental prosopagnosia.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Global changes in the pattern of connectivity in developmental prosopagnosia.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Object color knowledge representation occurs in the macaque brain despite the absence of a developed language system.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Neural computations in prosopagnosia.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Decoding face recognition abilities in the human brain.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- A new approach to diagnosing and researching developmental prosopagnosia: Excluded cases are impaired too.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
- Investigating the Influence of Autism Spectrum Traits on Face Processing Mechanisms in Developmental Prosopagnosia.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Persistent prosopagnosia following COVID-19.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2023Article
- The neural correlates of domain-general visual ability.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Hominoid-specific sulcal variability is related to face perception ability.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Is It Just Face Blindness? Exploring Developmental Comorbidity in Individuals with Self-Reported Developmental Prosopagnosia.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Normal colour perception in developmental prosopagnosia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Face Processing in Developmental Prosopagnosia: Altered Neural Representations in the Fusiform Face Area.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Normal recognition of famous voices in developmental prosopagnosia.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Evidence for normal novel object recognition abilities in developmental prosopagnosia.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe deficits with facial identity recognition. It is unclear which cortical areas contribute to face processing deficits in DP, and no previous studies have investigated whether other category-selective areas function normally in DP. To address these issues, we scanned 22 DPs and 27 controls using a dynamic localizer consisting of video clips of faces, scenes, bodies, objects, and scrambled objects. We then analyzed category selectivity, a measure of the tuning of a cortical area to a particular visual category. DPs exhibited reduced face selectivity in all 12 face areas, and the reductions were significant in three posterior and two anterior areas. DPs and controls showed similar responses to faces in other category-selective areas, which suggests the DPs' behavioral deficits with faces result from problems restricted to the face network. DPs also had pronounced scene-selectivity reductions in four of six scene-selective areas and marginal body-selectivity reductions in two of four body-selective areas. Our results demonstrate that DPs have widespread deficits throughout the face network, and they are inconsistent with a leading account of DP which proposes that posterior face-selective areas are normal in DP. The selectivity reductions in other category-selective areas indicate many DPs have deficits spread across high-level visual cortex.
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