title: Familiar people recognition disorders: an introductory review.
abstract: The aim of this introduction is to provide a general background for the individual contributions dealing with different aspects of familiar people recognition disorders. Following are the main points considered in this survey: 1) the cognitive models proposed to explain the functional architecture of processes subsuming familiar people recognition; 2) the different roles of the right and left hemisphere in identifying people by face voice and name; 3) the anatomical structures and the cognitive processes involved in face and voice recognition; 4) the interactions that exist among the perceptual processes subsuming face and voice recognition, but not people's faces, voices and proper names; 5) the patterns of multimodal defects of familiar people recognition and their implications for current cognitive models. Finally, there is a short discussion of two models advanced to explain the role of the anterior temporal lobes in people recognition.
authors.affiliation: Center for Neuropsychological Research. Catholic University of Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gainotti
mesh_terms: D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D009275:Names; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D020238:Prosopagnosia / Q000503:physiopathology; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D014831:Voice