Intact word processing in developmental prosopagnosia

• Main Authors: Bennetts, Rachel J., Bate, Sarah, Wright, Victoria C., Weidemann, Christoph T., Tree, Jeremy J., Burns, Edwin James
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Reading; Perception
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83626; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42686
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A wealth of evidence from behavioural, neuropsychological and neuroimaging research supports the view that face recognition is reliant upon a domain-specific network that does not process words. In contrast, the recent many-to-many model of visual recognition posits that brain areas involved in word...