[Prosopagnosia].
True prosopagnosy preserves the perception of human faces. However, the latter faces cannot be identified even by patients who have kept an intact implicit recognition. After a thorough examination of the visual recognition disorder, other kinds of information may be involved like, on one hand, those of places, landscapes and building constructions or, on the other hand, those of animals. We observed that a transitorily prosopagnosic farmer was definitively unable to recognize his cows. Arguments for a right hemisphere dominance are discussed.
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L'université de Lausanne, Clinique romande de réadaptation, SUVA-CH 1951 Sion.
D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007839:Functional Laterality; D020200:Hematoma, Subdural, Chronic / Q000150:complications*; D006423:Hemianopsia / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D020238:Prosopagnosia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012307:Risk Factors; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed