The background of reduced face specificity of N170 in congenital prosopagnosia.

Congenital prosopagnosia is lifelong face-recognition impairment in the absence of evidence for structural brain damage. To study the neural correlates of congenital prosopagnosia, we measured the face-sensitive N170 component of the event-related potential in three members of the same family (fathe...

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Main Authors: Kornél Németh, Márta Zimmer, Stefan R Schweinberger, Pál Vakli, Gyula Kovács
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4077801?pdf=render