developmental prosopagnosia / prosopagnosie développementale
Synonyms: congenital prosopagnosia, hereditary prosopagnosia, prosopdysgnosia
Synonymes : prosopagnosie congénitale, prosopagnosie héréditaire, prosopdysgnosie
Group: Human, Neurology
Groupe : Homme, Neurologie
Definition: "Developmental prosopagnosia, also known as congenital prosopagnosia or ‘face blindness’, is a lifelong condition that affects individuals’ ability to recognise faces. Unlike cases of acquired prosopagnosia, where people encounter face recognition difficulties as an adult following a stroke or traffic accident, individuals with developmental prosopagnosia develop recognition problems in the absence of manifest brain injury. Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia experience difficulties recognising faces despite normal intelligence, memory, and typical low-level vision." (Cook & Biotti, 2016, p. R312).
Définition : « La prosopagnosie développementale, également connue sous le nom de prosopagnosie congénitale ou "cécité des visages", est une affection qui dure toute la vie et qui altère la capacité des individus à reconnaître les visages. Contrairement aux cas de prosopagnosie acquise, où les personnes rencontrent des difficultés de reconnaissance des visages à l'âge adulte à la suite d'un accident vasculaire cérébral ou d'un accident de la route, les personnes atteintes de prosopagnosie développementale présentent des problèmes de reconnaissance en l'absence de lésion cérébrale manifeste. Les personnes atteintes de prosopagnosie développementale éprouvent des difficultés à reconnaître les visages malgré une intelligence, une mémoire et une acuité visuelle normales. » (Cook & Biotti, 2016, p. R312).
Broader term: prosopagnosia
Terme générique : prosopagnosie
Has diagnostic tools: 20-item prosopagnosia index, Cambridge Face Memory Test, Benton Facial Recognition Test, Stirling Face Recognition Scale
Disorder of: face memory
Editorial note: Rossion (2018) prefers the term prosopdysgnosia to refer to face identity recognition disorder of developmental origin, without neurological condition.
Note éditoriale : Rossion (2018) préfère le terme de prosopdysgnosie pour qualifier les troubles de la reconnaissance de l’identitié des visages d'origine développementale, sans lésion neurologique manifeste.
Selected bibliography: Nørkær, E., Gobbo, S., Roald, T., & Starrfelt, R. (in press). Disentangling developmental prosopagnosia: A scoping review of terms, tools and topics. Cortex, S0010945224001163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.04.011 [Study type: literature review / Access: open], Barton, J. J. S., Davies-Thompson, J., & Corrow, S. L. (2021). Prosopagnosia and disorders of face processing. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 178, 175–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821377-3.00006-4 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Cook, R., & Biotti, F. (2016). Developmental prosopagnosia. Current Biology, 26(8), R312–R313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.008 [Study type: literature review / Access: open], Duchaine, B. (2011). Developmental prosopagnosia: Cognitive, neural, and developmental investigations. In A. J. Calder, M. H. Johnson, & J. V. Haxby (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Face Perception (p. 821-838). Oxford University Press. [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], Geskin, J., & Behrmann, M. (2018). Congenital prosopagnosia without object agnosia? A literature review. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(1–2), 4–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1392295 [Study type: literature review / Access: closed], McConachie, H. R. (1976). Developmental prosopagnosia. A single case report. Cortex, 12(1), 76–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-9452(76)80033-0 [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed], Rossion, B. (2018). Prosopdysgnosia? What could it tell us about the neural organization of face and object recognition?: Cognitive Neuropsychology. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 35(1/2), 98–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2017.1414778 [Study type: conceptual analysis / Access: closed]
Dataset citations: Cook, R. (2019, January 21). Does developmental prosopagnosia impair identification of other-ethnicity faces? https://osf.io/yck8s/, Krill, D., Pertzov, Y., & Pertzov, Y. (2020, April 14). Rapid forgetting of faces in congenital prosopagnosia - data. https://osf.io/j47w2/, Stumps, A., & DeGutis, J. (2020, April 29). Characterizing developmental prosopagnosia beyond face perception: Impaired recollection but intact familiarity recognition. https://osf.io/dah4n/, Tsantani, M., & Cook, R. (2020, September 17). Evidence of holistic face processing in developmental prosopagnosia. https://osf.io/qw9z6/, Tsantani, M., & Cook, R. (2022, January 27). Emotion recognition of masked faces in developmental prosopagnosia. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/CNMW5, Tsantani, M., & Cook, R. (2022, March 22). Normal recognition of famous voices in developmental prosopagnosia. https://osf.io/da2xu/