Elsevier
A face is more than the sum of its parts
Published in Law and Health Weekly, February 27th, 2010
You stop at a shop window and wonder why someone inside is blatantly staring at you - until you realize this person is you. Scenarios like this are impossible for us to imagine, but quite common for sufferers of acquired prosopagnosia (AP), a condition which can occur after brain damage, hindering the ability to recognize faces. In a new study published in the March 2010 issue of Elsevier's Cortex researchers have found that the condition is linked to an inability to process faces as a whole, or holistically.
Meike Ramon and Dr Bruno Rossion from the Universite de Louvain in Belgium have been investigating the case of PS, a 59...
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