Are faces special? A case of pure prosopagnosia.

The ability to recognize individual faces is of crucial social importance for humans and evolutionarily necessary for survival. Consequently, faces may be "special" stimuli, for which we have developed unique modular perceptual and recognition processes. Some of the strongest evidence for...

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Main Authors: Riddoch, M, Johnston, R, Bracewell, R, Boutsen, L, Humphreys, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008