Do congenital prosopagnosia and the other-race effect affect the same face recognition mechanisms?

Congenital prosopagnosia, an innate impairment in recognizing faces, as well as the other-race effect, a disadvantage in recognizing faces of foreign races, both affect face recognition abilities. Are the same face processing mechanisms affected in both situations? To investigate this question, we t...

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Main Authors: Janina eEsins, Johannes eSchultz, Christian eWallraven, Isabelle eBülthoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00759/full