title: Congenital prosopagnosia in a child: Neuropsychological assessment, eye movement recordings and training.
abstract: Here we report the assessment and treatment of a 6-year-old boy (L.G.) who was referred to us for congenital prosopagnosia (CP). We investigated his performance using a test battery and eye movement recordings pre- and post-training. L.G. showed deficits in recognising relatives and learning new faces, and misrecognition of unfamiliar people. Eye movement recordings showed that L.G. focused on the lower part of stimuli in naming tasks based on familiar or unfamiliar incomplete or complete faces. The training focused on improving his ability to explore internal features of faces, to discriminate specific facial features of familiar and unfamiliar faces, and to provide his family with strategies to use in the future. At the end of the training programme L.G. no longer failed to recognise close and distant relatives and classmates and did not falsely recognise unknown people.
authors.affiliation: a Neuropsychology Unit , IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy.
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Pizzamiglio
authors.affiliation: a Neuropsychology Unit , IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: De Luca
authors.affiliation: a Neuropsychology Unit , IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy.|b Psychology Department , Sapienza University , Rome , Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Di Vita
authors.affiliation: a Neuropsychology Unit , IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy.|c School of Life & Health Sciences , Aston University , Birmingham , UK.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Palermo
authors.affiliation: a Neuropsychology Unit , IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy.|b Psychology Department , Sapienza University , Rome , Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tanzilli
authors.affiliation: a Neuropsychology Unit , IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy.|d Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopaedic Sciences , Sapienza University of Rome , Rome , Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dacquino
authors.affiliation: a Neuropsychology Unit , IRCCS, Santa Lucia Foundation , Rome , Italy.|e Life, Health and Environmental Science Department , University of L'Aquila , L'Aquila , Italy.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Piccardi
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D053483:Eye Movement Measurements; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D020238:Prosopagnosia / Q000151:congenital* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation
keywords: Developmental prosopagnosia; Eye movements; Face recognition; Rehabilitation