Concept information
Preferred term
developmental prosopagnosia
Definition
- "Developmental prosopagnosia, also known as congenital prosopagnosia or ‘face blindness’, is a lifelong condition that affects individuals’ ability to recognise faces. Unlike cases of acquired prosopagnosia, where people encounter face recognition difficulties as an adult following a stroke or traffic accident, individuals with developmental prosopagnosia develop recognition problems in the absence of manifest brain injury. Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia experience difficulties recognising faces despite normal intelligence, memory, and typical low-level vision." (Cook & Biotti, 2016, p. R312).
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- congenital prosopagnosia
- hereditary prosopagnosia
- prosopdysgnosia
Scope note
- Rossion (2018) prefers the term prosopdysgnosia to refer to face identity recognition disorder of developmental origin, without neurological condition.
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Barton, J. J. S., Davies-Thompson, J., & Corrow, S. L. (2021). Prosopagnosia and disorders of face processing. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 178, 175–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821377-3.00006-4
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Cook, R., & Biotti, F. (2016). Developmental prosopagnosia. Current Biology, 26(8), R312–R313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.008
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Duchaine, B. (2011). Developmental prosopagnosia: Cognitive, neural, and developmental investigations. In A. J. Calder, M. H. Johnson, & J. V. Haxby (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception (p. 821-838). Oxford University Press.
{{#each properties}}• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • Geskin, J., & Behrmann, M. (2018). Congenital prosopagnosia without object agnosia? A literature review. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(1–2), 4–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1392295
• Document type: literature review
• Access: closed
- • McConachie, H. R. (1976). Developmental prosopagnosia. A single case report. Cortex, 12(1), 76–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(76)80033-0
• Document type: empirical study
• Access: closed
- • Nørkær, E., Gobbo, S., Roald, T., & Starrfelt, R. (2024). Disentangling developmental prosopagnosia: A scoping review of terms, tools and topics. Cortex, 175, 161–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.04.011
• Document type: literature review
• Access: open
- • Rossion, B. (2018). Prosopdysgnosia? What could it tell us about the neural organization of face and object recognition?: Cognitive Neuropsychology. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(1/2), 98–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1414778
• Document type: conceptual analysis
• Access: closed
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Has diagnostic tool(s)
Disorder of
In other languages
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French
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prosopagnosie congénitale
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prosopagnosie héréditaire
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prosopdysgnosie
URI
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