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01-09-2007 | Original Article

Gaze behaviour in hereditary prosopagnosia

Auteurs: Gudrun Schwarzer, Susanne Huber, Martina Grüter, Thomas Grüter, Cornelia Groß, Melanie Hipfel, Ingo Kennerknecht

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 5/2007

Abstract

Prosopagnosia is the inability to recognize someone by the face alone in the absence of sensory or intellectual impairment. In contrast to the acquired form of prosopagnosia we studied the congenital form. Since we could recently show that this form is inherited as a simple monogenic trait we called it hereditary form. To determine whether not only face recognition and neuronal processing but also the perceptual acquisition of facial information is specific to prosopagnosia, we studied the gaze behaviour of four hereditary prosopagnosics in comparison to matched control subjects. This rarely studied form of prosopagnosia ensures that deficits are limited to face recognition. Whereas the control participants focused their gaze on the central facial features, the hereditary prosopagnosics showed a significantly different gaze behaviour. They had a more dispersed gaze and also fixated external facial features. Thus, the face recognition impairment of the hereditary prosopagnosics is reflected in their gaze behaviour.

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Titel: Gaze behaviour in hereditary prosopagnosia
Auteurs: Gudrun Schwarzer
Susanne Huber
Martina Grüter
Thomas Grüter
Cornelia Groß
Melanie Hipfel
Ingo Kennerknecht
Publicatiedatum: 01-09-2007
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 5/2007
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-006-0068-0

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