Developmental prosopagnosia and adaptative compensatory strategies: Case study

Abstract Prosopagnosia is a type of visual agnosia with inability to identify faces, usually secondary to brain lesion in associative cortex areas, but there is also a congenital form known as developmental prosopagnosia. Objectives: To describe a case of developmental prosopagnosia that illustrates...

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Main Authors: Anair Rodrigues, Sílvia Adriana Prado Bolognani, Sonia Maria Dozzi Brucki, Orlando Francisco Amodeo Bueno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642008000400353&lng=en&tlng=en