Skip to main content

Cognitive psychology of human memory (thesaurus)

Search from vocabulary

align
annotate
download

Concept information

... > disposition > cognitive disorder > memory disorder > agnosia > prosopagnosia > developmental prosopagnosia

Preferred term

developmental prosopagnosia  

Definition

  • "Developmental prosopagnosia, also known as congenital prosopagnosia or ‘face blindness’, is a lifelong condition that affects individuals’ ability to recognise faces. Unlike cases of acquired prosopagnosia, where people encounter face recognition difficulties as an adult following a stroke or traffic accident, individuals with developmental prosopagnosia develop recognition problems in the absence of manifest brain injury. Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia experience difficulties recognising faces despite normal intelligence, memory, and typical low-level vision." (Cook & Biotti, 2016, p. R312).

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • congenital prosopagnosia
  • hereditary prosopagnosia
  • prosopdysgnosia

Belongs to group

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Barton, J. J. S., Davies-Thompson, J., & Corrow, S. L. (2021). Prosopagnosia and disorders of face processing. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 178, 175–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821377-3.00006-4

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Cook, R., & Biotti, F. (2016). Developmental prosopagnosia. Current Biology, 26(8), R312–R313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.008

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Duchaine, B. (2011). Developmental prosopagnosia: Cognitive, neural, and developmental investigations. In A. J. Calder, M. H. Johnson, & J. V. Haxby (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception (p. 821-838). Oxford University Press.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Geskin, J., & Behrmann, M. (2018). Congenital prosopagnosia without object agnosia? A literature review. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(1–2), 4–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1392295

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • McConachie, H. R. (1976). Developmental prosopagnosia. A single case report. Cortex, 12(1), 76–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(76)80033-0

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Nørkær, E., Gobbo, S., Roald, T., & Starrfelt, R. (in press). Disentangling developmental prosopagnosia: A scoping review of terms, tools and topics. Cortex, S0010945224001163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.04.011

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Rossion, B. (2018). Prosopdysgnosia? What could it tell us about the neural organization of face and object recognition?: Cognitive Neuropsychology. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(1/2), 98–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1414778

    [Study type: conceptual analysis / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Has diagnostic tool(s)

Disorder of

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Cook, R. (2019, January 21). Does developmental prosopagnosia impair identification of other-ethnicity faces? https://osf.io/yck8s/
  • • Krill, D., Pertzov, Y., & Pertzov, Y. (2020, April 14). Rapid forgetting of faces in congenital prosopagnosia - data. https://osf.io/j47w2/
  • • Stumps, A., & DeGutis, J. (2020, April 29). Characterizing developmental prosopagnosia beyond face perception: Impaired recollection but intact familiarity recognition. https://osf.io/dah4n/
  • • Tsantani, M., & Cook, R. (2020, September 17). Evidence of holistic face processing in developmental prosopagnosia. https://osf.io/qw9z6/
  • • Tsantani, M., & Cook, R. (2022, January 27). Emotion recognition of masked faces in developmental prosopagnosia. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/CNMW5
  • • Tsantani, M., & Cook, R. (2022, March 22). Normal recognition of famous voices in developmental prosopagnosia. https://osf.io/da2xu/

Editorial note

  • Rossion (2018) prefers the term prosopdysgnosia to refer to face identity recognition disorder of developmental origin, without neurological condition.

In other languages

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-ZLBSFLSS-4

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD Created 12/4/17, last modified 5/17/24