999
Views
9
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Atypical holistic processing of facial identity and expression in a case of acquired prosopagnosia

, , , &
Pages 358-382 | Received 08 Aug 2018, Accepted 07 Jan 2020, Published online: 27 Jan 2020

References

  • Avidan, G., Tanzer, M., & Behrmann, M. (2011). Impaired holistic processing in congenital prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 49(9), 2541–2552.
  • Barton, J. J., Press, D. Z., Keenan, J. P., & O’Connor, M. (2002). Lesions of the fusiform face area impair perception of facial configuration in prosopagnosia. Neurology, 58(1), 71–78.
  • Bate, S., Bennetts, R., Mole, J.A., Ainge, J., Gregory, N.J., Bobak, A.K., & Bussunt, A. (2015). Rehabilitation of face-processing skills in an adolescent with prosopagnosia: Evaluation of an online perceptual training programme. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, (September), 1–30. http://doi.org/10.1080/09602011.2014.973886
  • Bates, D, Mächler, M, & Bolker, B. (2015). Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of statistical software, 67(1).
  • Baudouin, J.-Y., & Humphreys, G. W. (2006). Compensatory strategies in processing facial emotions: Evidence from prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 44(8), 1361–1369. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.01.006
  • Benton, A. L. (1990). Facial recognition 1990. Cortex, 26, 491–499.
  • Benton, A. L., Varney, N. R., & deS Hamsher, K. (1978). Visuospatial judgment: A clinical test. Archives of Neurology, 35(6), 364–367.
  • Biotti, F., & Cook, R. (2016). Impaired perception of facial emotion in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 81, 126–136.
  • Biotti, F., Wu, E., Yang, H., Jiahui, G., Duchaine, B., & Cook, R. (2017). Normal composite face effects in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 95, 63–76. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.07.018
  • Blais, C., Roy, C., Fiset, D., Arguin, M., & Gosselin, F. (2012). The eyes are not the window to basic emotions. Neuropsychologia, 50(12), 2830–2838.
  • Bodamer, J. (1947). Die prosop-agnosie. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten, 179(1-2), 6–53.
  • Bombari, D., Schmid, P. C., Schmid Mast, M., Birri, S., Mast, F. W., & Lobmaier, J. S. (2013). Emotion recognition: The role of featural and configural face information. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(12), 2426–2442.
  • Bouvier, S. E., & Engel, S. A. (2006). Behavioral deficits and cortical damage loci in cerebral achromatopsia. Cerebral Cortex, 16(2), 183–191.
  • Bowles, D. C., McKone, E., Dawel, A., Duchaine, B., Palermo, R., Schmalzl, L., … Yovel, G. (2009). Diagnosing prosopagnosia: Effects of ageing, sex, and participant–stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge Face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 26(5), 423–455.
  • Bruce, V., & Young, A. (1986). Understanding face recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 77, 305–327. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1986.tb02199.x
  • Burton, A.M., White, D., & McNeil, A. (2010). The Glasgow Face Matching Test. Behavior Research Method, 42, 286–291. doi:10.3758/BRM.42.1.286
  • Burton, A. M., White, D., & McNeill, A. (2010). The Glasgow face matching test. Behavior Research Methods, 42(1), 286–291.
  • Busigny, T., Joubert, S., Felician, O., Ceccaldi, M., & Rossion, B. (2010). Holistic perception of the individual face is specific and necessary: Evidence from an extensive case study of acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 48(14), 4057–4092.
  • Busigny, T., & Rossion, B. (2010). Acquired prosopagnosia abolishes the face inversion effect. Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 46(8), 965–981.
  • Busigny, T., Van Belle, G., Jemel, B., Hosein, A., Joubert, S., & Rossion, B. (2014). Face-specific impairment in holistic perception following focal lesion of the right anterior temporal lobe. Neuropsychologia, 56, 312–333.
  • Caffarra, P., Vezzadini, G., Dieci, F., Zonato, F., & Venneri, A. (2002). Reyeosterrieth complex figure: Normative values in an Italian population sample. Neurological Sciences, 22(6), 443–447.
  • Calder, A. J., & Jansen, J. (2005). Configural coding of facial expressions: The impact of inversion and photographic negative. Visual Cognition, 12, 495–518.
  • Calder, A. J., Keane, J., Young, A., & Dean, M. (2000). Configural information in facial expression perception. Journal Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 527–551.
  • Calder, A. J., & Young, A. W. (2005). Understanding the recognition of facial identity and facial expression. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 6(8), 641–651.
  • Capasso, R., & Miceli, G. (2001). Esame Neuropsicologico per l'Afasia: ENPA (Vol. 4). Milano, Italy: Springer Science & Business Media.
  • Capitani, E., & Laiacona, M. (1997). Composite neuropsychological batteries and demographic correction: Standardization based on equivalent scores, with a review of published data. The Italian Group for the neuropsychological study of ageing. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 19(6), 795–809.
  • Carlesimo, G. A., Caltagirone, C., Fadda, L., Marfia, G., Gainotti, G., & Gruppo per la standardizzazione della batteria per il Deterioramento Mentale. (1995). Batteria per la valutazione del Deterioramento Mentale (parte III): analisi dei profili qualitativi di compromissione cognitiva. Archivio di Psicologia, Neurologia e Psichiatria, 4, 489–502.
  • Clarke, S., Lindemann, A., Maeder, P., Borruat, F. X., & Assal, G. (1997). Face recognition and postero-inferior hemispheric lesions. Neuropsychologia, 35(12), 1555–1563.
  • Crawford, J. R., Garthwaite, P. H., & Porter, S. (2010). Point and interval estimates of effect sizes for the case-controls design in neuropsychology: Rationale, methods, implementations, and proposed reporting standards. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 27, 245–260.
  • Damasio, A. R., Damasio, H., & Van Hoesen, G. W. (1982). Prosopagnosia Anatomic basis and behavioral mechanisms. Neurology, 32(4), 331–331.
  • DeGutis, J., Cohan, S., Mercado, R. J., Wilmer, J., & Nakayama, K. (2012). Holistic processing of the mouth but not the eyes in developmental prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29, 419–446. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2012.754745
  • DeGutis, J., Wilmer, J., Mercado, R. J., & Cohan, S. (2013). Using regression to measure holistic face processing reveals a strong link with face recognition ability. Cognition, 126(1), 87–100. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.09.004
  • Della Sala, S., Laiacona, M., Trivelli, C., & Spinnler, H. (1995). Poppelreuter-Ghent's overlapping figures test: Its sensitivity to age, and its clinical use. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 10(6), 511–534.
  • De Renzi, E., Faglioni, P., Grossi, D., & Nichelli, P. (1991). Apperceptive and associative forms of prosopagnosia. Cortex, 27(2), 213–221.
  • De Renzi, E., Motti, F., & Nichelli, P. (1980). Imitating gestures. A quantitative approach to ideomotor apraxia. Archives of Neurology, 37(1), 6–10.
  • Dodich, A., Cerami, C., Canessa, N., Crespi, C., Marcone, A., Arpone, M., … Cappa, S. F. (2014). Emotion recognition from facial expressions: A normative study of the Ekman 60-faces test in the Italian population. Neurological Sciences, 35(7), 1015–1021.
  • Duchaine, B., & Nakayama, K. (2006). The Cambridge Face Memory Test: Results for neurologically intact individuals and an investigation of its validity using inverted face stimuli and prosopagnosic participants. Neuropsychologia, 44(4), 576–585.
  • Duchaine, B. C., Parker, H., & Nakayama, K. (2003). Normal recognition of emotion in a prosopagnosic. Perception, 32, 827–838. doi: 10.1068/p5067
  • Duchaine, B., Yovel, G., & Nakayama, K. (2007). No global processing deficit in the Navon task in 14 developmental prosopagnosics. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2(2), 104–113.
  • Eisenbarth, H., & Alpers, G. (2011). Happy mouth and sad eyes: Scanning emotional facial expressions. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 11, 860–865. doi: 10.1037/a0022758
  • Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1976). Pictures of facial affect. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
  • Farah, M. J. (1991). Cognitive neuropsychology: Patterns of co-occurrence among the associative agnosias: Implications for visual object representation. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 8(1), 1–19.
  • Farnsworth, D. (1943). The Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue and dichotomous tests for color vision. JOSA, 33(10), 568–578.
  • Finzi, R. D., Susilo, T., Barton, J. J. S., & Duchaine, B. C. (2016). The role of holistic face processing in acquired prosopagnosia: Evidence from the composite face effect. Visual Cognition, 0(0), 1–17. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2016.1261976
  • Fisher, K., Towler, J., & Eimer, M. (2016). Facial identity and facial expression are initially integrated at visual perceptual stages of face processing. Neuropsychologia, 80, 115–125. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.11.011
  • Fisher, K., Towler, J., & Eimer, M. (2017). Face identity matching is selectively impaired in developmental prosopagnosia. cortex, 89, 11–27.
  • Fortis, P., Maravita, A., Gallucci, M., Ronchi, R., Grassi, E., Senna, I., … Vallar, G. (2010). Rehabilitating patients with left spatial neglect by prism exposure during a visuomotor activity. Neuropsychology, 24(6), 681–697.
  • Fox, C.J., Hanif, H.M., Iaria, G., Duchaine, B.C., & Barton, J.J.S. (2011). Perceptual and anatomic patterns of selective deficits in facial identity and expression processing. Neuropsychologia, 49, 3188–3200.
  • Gauthier, I., Behrmann, M., & Tarr, M. J. (1999). Is prosopagnosia a general deficit in subordinate-level categorization. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11, 349–370.
  • Gauthier, L., Dehaut, F., & Joanette, Y. (1989). The bells test: A quantitative and qualitative test for visual neglect. International Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology, 11(2), 49–54.
  • Grüsser, O. J., & Landis, T. (1991). Faces lost: Prosopagnosia. Visual Agnosias and Other Disturbances of Visual Perception and Cognition: Vision and Visual Dysfunction, 12, 259–286.
  • Haxby, J. V., Hoffman, E. A., & Gobbini, M. I. (2000). The distributed human neural system for face perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4, 223–233. doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01482-0
  • Hecaen, H., & Angelergues, R. (1962). Agnosia for faces (prosopagnosia). Archives of Neurology, 7(2), 92–100.
  • Hole, G. (1994). Configurational factors in the perception of unfamiliar faces. Perception, 23(1), 65–74.
  • Humphreys, K., Avidan, G., & Behrmann, M. (2007). A detailed investigation of facial expression processing in congenital prosopagnosia as compared to acquired prosopagnosia. Experimental Brain Research, 176(2), 356–373.
  • Kanwisher, N., McDermott, J., & Chun, M. (1997). The fusiform face area: a module in human extrastriate cortex specialized for the perception of faces. J. Neurosci, 17, 4302–4311.
  • Laiacona, M., Inzaghi, M. G., De Tanti, A., & Capitani, E. (2000). Wisconsin card sorting test: A new global score, with Italian norms, and its relationship with the Weigl sorting test. Neurological Sciences, 21(5), 279–291.
  • Lee, Y., Duchaine, B., Wilson, H. R., & Nakayama, K. (2010). Three cases of developmental prosopagnosia from one family: Detailed neuropsychological and psychophysical investigation of face processing. cortex, 46(8), 949–964.
  • Maurer, D., Le Grand, R., & Mondloch, C. J. (2002). The many faces of configural processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 6(6), 255–260.
  • Mayer, E., & Rossion, B. (2013). Prosopagnosia. In O. Godefroy (Ed.), The behavioral and cognitive neurology of stroke (pp. 231–232). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mckone, E., & Yovel, G. (2009). Why does picture-plane inversion sometimes dissociate perception of features and spacing in faces, and sometimes not? Toward a new theory of holistic processing. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 16(5), 778–797. doi: 10.3758/PBR.16.5.778
  • McNeil, J.E., & Warrington, E.K. (1993). Prosopagnosia: a face-specific disorder. Q. J. Exp. Psychol. A, 46, 1–10.
  • Meaux, E., & Vuilleumier, P. (2016). Facing mixed emotions: Analytic and holistic perception of facial emotion expressions engages separate brain networks. NeuroImage, 141(September), 154–173. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.07.004
  • Mestry, N., Donnelly, N., Menneer, T., & McCarthy, R. (2012). Discriminating Thatcherised from typical faces in a case of prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 50(14), 3410–3418.
  • Minear, M., & Park, D. C. (2004). A lifespan database of adult facial stimuli. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 36(4), 630–633. doi: 10.3758/BF03206543
  • Monaco, M., Costa, A., Caltagirone, C., & Carlesimo, G. A. (2013). Forward and backward span for verbal and visuo-spatial data: Standardization and normative data from an Italian adult population. Neurological Sciences, 34(5), 749–754.
  • Mondini, S., Mapelli, D., Vestri, A., & Bisiacchi, P. S. (2003). Esame neuropsicologico breve. Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore, 160.
  • Negrini, M., Brkic, D., Pizzamiglio, S., Premoli, I., & Rivolta, D. (2017). Neurophysiological Correlates of Featural and Spacing Processing for Face and Non-face Stimuli. Front. Psychol, 8.
  • Palermo, R., Willis, M. L., Rivolta, D., McKone, E., Wilson, C. E., & Calder, A. J. (2011). Impaired holistic coding of facial expression and facial identity in congenital prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 49(5), 1226–1235. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.02.021
  • Piepers, D. W., & Robbins, R. A. (2013). A review and clarification of the terms “holistic,” “configural,” and “relational” in the face perception literature. Frontiers in Psychology, 3(559), 1–11.
  • Ramon, M., Busigny, T., & Rossion, B. (2010). Impaired holistic processing of unfamiliar individual faces in acquired prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 48(4), 933–944.
  • Ramon, M., & Rossion, B. (2012). Hemisphere-dependent holistic processing of familiar faces. Brain and Cognition, 78(1), 7–13. doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.009
  • Rezlescu, C., Pitcher, D., & Duchaine, B. (2012). Acquired prosopagnosia with spared within-class object recognition but impaired recognition of degraded basic-level objects. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 29(4), 325–347.
  • Richler, J.J., Cheung, O.S., & Gauthier, I. (2011). Holistic processing predicts face recognition. Psychological science, 22(4), 464–471.
  • Riddoch, M. J., & Humphreys, G. W. (1993). Birmingham object recognition battery. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Riddoch, M. J., Johnston, R. a., Bracewell, R. M., Boutsen, L., & Humphreys, G. W. (2008). Are faces special? A case of pure prosopagnosia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25(1), 3–26. doi: 10.1080/02643290801920113
  • Rivolta, D., Castellanos, N. P., Stawowsky, C., Helbling, S., Wibral, M., Grützner, C., … Singer, W. (2014a). Source-reconstruction of event-related fields reveals hyperfunction and hypofunction of cortical circuits in antipsychotic-naive, first-episode schizophrenia patients during Mooney face processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(17), 5909–5917.
  • Rivolta, D., Lawson, R. P., & Palermo, R. (2017). More than just a problem with faces: Altered body perception in a group of congenital prosopagnosics. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(2), 276–286.
  • Rivolta, D., Schmalzl, L., Coltheart, M., & Palermo, R. (2010). Semantic information can facilitate covert face recognition in congenital prosopagnosia. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32(9), 1002–1016. doi: 10.1080/13803391003662710
  • Rivolta, D., Woolgar, A., Palermo, R., Butko, M., Schmalzl, L., & Williams, M. A. (2014b). Multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) reveals abnormal fMRI activity in both the “core” and “extended” face network in congenital prosopagnosia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8(November), 1–11. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2014.00925.
  • Rondot, P., & Tzavaras, A. (1969). La prosopagnosie après vingt années d'études cliniques et neuropsychologiques. Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique, 66, 133–165.
  • Rossion, B. (2008). Picture-plane inversion leads to qualitative changes of face perception. Acta psychologica, 128(2), 274–289.
  • Rossion, B. (2013). The composite face illusion: A whole window into our understanding of holistic face perception. Visual Cognition, 21(2), 139–253. doi: 10.1080/13506285.2013.772929
  • Scheller, E., Büchel, C., & Gamer, M. (2012). Diagnostic features of emotional expressions are processed preferentially. PLoS ONE, 7, e41792. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041792
  • Smith, M., Gosselin, F., Cottrell, G., & Schyns, P. (2005). Transmitting and decoding facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 4, 909. doi:10.1167/4.8.909.
  • Spinnler, H., & Tognoni, G. (1987). Standardizzazione e taratura di test neuropsicologici. The Italian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 8(Suppl. 6), 1–20.
  • Takahashi, N, Kawamura, M, Hirayama, K, Shiota, J, & Isono, O. (1995). Prosopagnosia: a clinical and anatomical study of four patients. Cortex, 31(13), 80365–80366.
  • Tanaka, J. W., & Farah, M. J. (1993). Parts and wholes in face recognition. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 46(2), 225–245.
  • Tanaka, J. W., Kaiser, M. D., Butler, S., & Le Grand, R. (2012). Mixed emotions: Holistic and analytic perception of facial expressions. Cognition and Emotion, 26(6), 961–977. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.630933
  • Torfs, K., Vancleef, K., Lafosse, C., Wagemans, J., & de-Wit, L. (2014). The Leuven perceptual organization screening test (L-POST), an online test to assess mid-level visual perception. Behavior Research Methods, 46, 472–487. doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0382-6
  • Towler, J., Fisher, K., & Eimer, M. (2018). Holistic face perception is impaired in developmental prosopagnosia. Cortex, 108, 112–126.
  • Tranel, D., Damasio, A. R., & Damasio, H. (1988). Intact recognition of facial expression, gender, and age in patients with impaired recognition of face identity. Neurology, 38(5), 690–690.
  • Van Belle, G., de Graef, P., Verfaillie, K., Busigny, T., & Rossion, B. (2010). Whole not hole: Expert face recognition requires holistic perception. Neuropsychologia, 48, 2620–2629.
  • Warrington, E. K., & James, M. (1991). The visual object and space perception battery. Bury St Edmunds: Thames Valley Test Company.
  • White, D., Rivolta, D., Burton, A. M., Al-Janabi, S., & Palermo, R. (2017). Face matching impairment in developmental prosopagnosia. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(2), 287–297.
  • Yin, R. K. (1969). Looking at upside-down faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 81(1), 141–145.
  • Young, A. W., Hellawell, D., & Hay, D. C. (1987). Configurational information in face perception. Perception, 16, 747–759. doi: 10.1068/p160747
  • Young, A. W., Newcombe, F., de Haan, E. H., Small, M., & Hay, D. C. (1993). Face perception after brain injury. Selective impairments affecting identity and expression. Brain, 116, 941–959. doi: 10.1093/brain/116.4.941
  • Young, A. W., Perrett, D., Calder, A., Sprengelmeyer, R., & Ekman, P. (2002). Facial expressions of emotion: Stimuli and tests (FEEST). Bury St. Edmunds: Thames Valley Test Company.
  • Zoccolotti, P., Antonucci, G., Judica, A., Montenero, P., Pizzamiglio, L., & Razzano, C. (1989). Incidence and evolution of the hemi-neglect disorder in chronic patients with unilateral right brain-damage. International Journal of Neuroscience, 47, 209–216.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.