Prosopagnosia: a face-specific disorder.
A follow-up study of a patient, WJ with a very severe prosopagnosia is reported. After a stroke he became a farmer and acquired a flock of sheep. He learn to recognize and name many of his sheep, and his performance on tests of recognition memory and paired-associate learning for sheep was significantly better than on comparable tests using human face stimuli. It is concluded that in some instances prosopagnosia can be a face-specific disorder.
McNeil
J E
JE
National Hospital, London, U.K.
Warrington
E K
EK
D000377:Agnosia / Q000523:psychology*; D000818:Animals; D001245:Association Learning; D005145:Face; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012756:Sheep