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The discrimination of facial sex in developmental prosopagnosia.
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- Both identity and non-identity face perception tasks predict developmental prosopagnosia and face recognition ability.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Familial Transmission of Developmental Prosopagnosia: New Case Reports from an Extended Family and Identical Twins.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- The development of upright face perception depends on evolved orientation-specific mechanisms and experience.iScience · 2023Article
- Face Blindness in Children and Current Interventions.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The Twenty Item Prosopagnosia Index (PI20) provides meaningful evidence of face recognition impairment.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Why is the literature on first impressions so focused on White faces?Royal Society open science · 2021Review
- Normal colour perception in developmental prosopagnosia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Normal recognition of famous voices in developmental prosopagnosia.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterised by difficulties recognising and discriminating faces. It is currently unclear whether the perceptual impairments seen in DP are restricted to identity information, or also affect the perception of other facial characteristics. To address this question, we compared the performance of 17 DPs and matched controls on two sensitive sex categorisation tasks. First, in a morph categorisation task, participants made binary decisions about faces drawn from a morph continuum that blended incrementally an average male face and an average female face. We found that judgement precision was significantly lower in the DPs than in the typical controls. Second, we used a sex discrimination task, where female or male facial identities were blended with an androgynous average face. We manipulated the relative weighting of each facial identity and the androgynous average to create four levels of signal strength. We found that DPs were significantly less sensitive than controls at each level of difficulty. Together, these results suggest that the visual processing difficulties in DP extend beyond the extraction of facial identity and affects the extraction of other facial characteristics. Deficits of facial sex categorisation accord with an apperceptive characterisation of DP.
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