Journal
NEUROPSYCHOLOGIA
Volume 89, Issue -, Pages 119-124Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.06.008
Keywords
Face recognition; Diagnosis; Perception; Development; Prosopagnosia
Funding
- Canada Research Chair [950228984]
- Marianne Koerner Chair in Brain Diseases
- National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health [F32 EY023479-02]
- Loan Repayment Program
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Developmental prosopagnosia has received increased attention in recent years, but as yet has no confirmed genetic or structural markers. It is not certain whether this condition reflects simply the low-end of the spectrum of normal face recognition, an 'under-development', or a pathologic failure to develop such mechanisms, a 'mal-development'. This difference in views creates challenges for the diagnosis of developmental prosopagnosia by behavioural criteria alone, which also vary substantially between studies, with secondary effects on issues such as determining its prevalence. After review of the literature and the problems inherent to diagnoses based solely on behavioural data, we propose as a starting discussion point a set of two primary and four secondary criteria for the diagnosis of developmental prosopagnosia. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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