Understanding provoked overt recognition in prosopagnosia |
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| Authors: | Donald J. Morrison Vicki Bruce A. Mike Burton |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland;2. Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland |
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| Abstract: | Prosopagnosic patients are unable to recognize overtly the faces of familiar people. However, under specific experimental conditions, overt recognition of faces has been induced in some prosopagnosics. This phenomenon of provoked overt recognition has proved challenging for current theories of face recognition. We first describe clinical demonstrations of provoked overt recognition, before highlighting some critical features that any satisfactory explanation of the phenomenon must accommodate. An account of provoked overt recognition is then put forward, couched within the framework of Burton, Bruce, and Johnston's (1990) IAC model of face recognition. This theory is tested by running computer simulations with the model. Finally, the present explanation of provoked overt recognition is scrutinized to discover whether it has implications for rehabilitation work with prosopagnosic patients. |
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