Impaired processing of facial happiness, with or without awareness, in developmental prosopagnosia

• Main Authors: Burns, Edwin James, Martin, Joel, Chan, Alice Hiu Dan, Xu, Hong
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Emotion; Happy
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86314; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44010
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is associated with severe, lifelong deficits in face recognition, with such cases often cited as support for a dissociation between the processing of facial identity and emotion. Here we examine the evidence against this dissociation and propose that the processing o...