TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Who's that girl?' Prosopagnosia, person-based semantic disorders, and the reacquisition of face identification ability
AU - Francis, Dawn
AU - Riddoch, Margaret
AU - Humphreys, Glyn
PY - 2002/1/1
Y1 - 2002/1/1
N2 - Data are reported on three rehabilitation studies conducted on a patient, NE, who shows a tendency to misidentify familiar faces due to a person-based semantic disorder complicated by prosopagnosia. Therapy aimed to improve NE's ability to learn to recognise new people (Study 1), and her ability to recognise previously familiar people (Studies 2 and 3). In all studies, we contrasted therapy that targeted all of NE's difficulties simultaneously with therapy that focused on only one area. We show positive effects of therapy that targeted both the prosopagnosic and the semantic impairments. We discuss the implications for remediating prosopagnosia, semantic memory disturbance, and cognitive disorders that are due to multiple loci of impairment.
AB - Data are reported on three rehabilitation studies conducted on a patient, NE, who shows a tendency to misidentify familiar faces due to a person-based semantic disorder complicated by prosopagnosia. Therapy aimed to improve NE's ability to learn to recognise new people (Study 1), and her ability to recognise previously familiar people (Studies 2 and 3). In all studies, we contrasted therapy that targeted all of NE's difficulties simultaneously with therapy that focused on only one area. We show positive effects of therapy that targeted both the prosopagnosic and the semantic impairments. We discuss the implications for remediating prosopagnosia, semantic memory disturbance, and cognitive disorders that are due to multiple loci of impairment.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036194769&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09602010143000158
DO - 10.1080/09602010143000158
M3 - Article
SN - 1464-0694
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 26
JO - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
JF - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
IS - 1
ER -