Article
Behavioral Sciences
Rachel J. Bennetts, Nicola J. Gregory, Jeremy Tree, Caroline Di Bernardi Luft, Michael J. Banissy, Ebony Murray, Tegan Penton, Sarah Bate
Summary: Previous studies have focused on the impairment of holistic and configural processing mechanisms in developmental prosopagnosia (DP). This study used a data-driven approach and found systematic patterns of variability in DP that reflect different underpinning perceptual deficits. The findings indicate two separable pathways to face recognition impairment.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Mirta Stantic, Zoe Pounder, Sarah Bate, Tirta Susilo, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird
Summary: This study investigates face memory impairments in individuals with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) using a new face matching test and independent measurement indices, and finds that individuals with DP exhibit impairments in face perception, face memory, and face matching.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Naphtali Abudarham, Sarah Bate, Brad Duchaine, Galit Yovel
Summary: The study found that super recognizers and developmental prosopagnosics rely more heavily on critical facial features than non-critical features for face identification, similar to normal individuals. The results emphasize the fundamental role of this subset of features for face recognition.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Regan Fry, Xian Li, Travis C. Evans, Michael Esterman, James Tanaka, Joseph DeGutis
Summary: This study investigated whether there are qualitative differences in face processing between DP patients with high and low AQ scores. The results showed that both groups had deficits in face memory and perception, while the high AQ group also demonstrated deficient face emotion recognition.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
David White, Daniel Guilbert, Victor P. L. Varela, Rob Jenkins, A. Mike Burton
Summary: GFMT2 is an expanded version of the widely used Glasgow Face Matching Test, with improvements in variation and difficulty of test items, short and long versions, addressing familiarity confounds, and implementation of tests in an executable program.
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Lauren Bell, Brad Duchaine, Tirta Susilo
Summary: Individuals with developmental prosopagnosia (DPs) experience severe deficits in recognizing faces, particularly in identity discrimination. However, their deficits in expression discrimination are subtle. Our study compared identity and expression processing in DPs and found dissociations between these two processes. DPs showed impaired performance in identity discrimination but relatively normal performance in expression discrimination.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Maria Tsantani, Katie L. H. Gray, Richard Cook
Summary: Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by lifelong difficulties in face recognition. This study aimed to examine whether individuals with DP have impaired recognition of facial expressions, particularly when faced with the challenge of interpreting emotions from masked faces during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results showed that DP individuals exhibited subtle deficits in recognizing facial expressions when the lower portion of the face was covered with a surgical mask.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Ela I. Olivares, Ana S. Urraca, Agustin Lage-Castellanos, Jaime Iglesias
Summary: Neuropsychological studies have shown that individuals with prosopagnosia perceive face structure in an atypical way, which may hinder the formation of appropriate face representations. This ERP study found differences in how individuals with acquired and developmental prosopagnosia processed information related to external and internal features during a face-feature matching task.
Review
Neurosciences
Valerio Manippa, Annalisa Palmisano, Martina Ventura, Davide Rivolta
Summary: This paper provides an overview of the neuroimaging research on developmental prosopagnosia (DP) over the past 25 years. The findings suggest that individuals with DP exhibit structural and functional abnormalities in the ventral visual stream, particularly in the connectivity between the Fusiform Face Area and other face-sensitive regions.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Christian Gerlach, Christina D. Kuhn, Mads Poulsen, Kristian Bjerre Andersen, Cathrine Heikamp Lissau, Randi Starrfelt
Summary: The study found that lateralization effects in face processing are within the normal range for both developmental dyslexics and prosopagnosics, but individuals with developmental dyslexia showed right hemisphere lateralization for word processing.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Alexa Haeger, Christophe Pouzat, Volker Luecken, Karim N'Diaye, Christian Elger, Ingo Kennerknecht, Nikolai Axmacher, Vera Dinkelacker
Summary: This study aimed to investigate modifications of FFA activation during face encoding and maintenance in individuals with Developmental Prosopagnosia (DP) using Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA). The results showed that DP participants failed to generate robust and sustained neural representations in the FFA during face processing, leading to poorer task performance and longer reaction times. Such alterations in neural coding in the FFA may contribute to impaired working memory and long-term memory.
FRONTIERS IN BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Gabriela Epihova, Richard Cook, Timothy J. Andrews
Summary: Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the perception and recognition of faces. This study examines whether DP also affects the perception of pareidolic objects. The results show that DP individuals have lower recognition performance for pareidolic-similar objects, similar to their performance with faces. However, their recognition performance for pareidolic-dissimilar objects and non-pareidolic objects is more similar to that of controls. Additionally, face recognition is found to covary with the recognition of pareidolic-similar objects in a neurotypical adult population. These findings suggest that the deficit in DP involves processing image properties that are common to faces.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Maruti Mishra, Regan M. Fry, Elyana Saad, Joseph M. Arizpe, Yuri-Grace B. Ohashi, Joseph M. DeGutis
Summary: This study compared the BFRT-c and CFPT in their ability to differentiate DPs and controls, finding that both tests outperformed the USCFPT and SDFMT. Results showed that face lighting-change conditions better predicted DP group membership and face recognition abilities, supporting the combined use of the BFRT-c and CFPT for assessing face perception impairments.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Gabriela Epihova, Richard Cook, Timothy J. Andrews
Summary: There is an ongoing debate in psychology and neuroscience about how faces and objects are represented. Some theories suggest that faces are processed differently from objects. Developmental prosopagnosia (DP) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that impairs the ability to recognize human faces. It is not clear whether DP also affects the recognition of animal faces.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maria Tsantani, Tim Vestner, Richard Cook
Summary: The Twenty Item Prosopagnosia Index (PI20) is a self-report questionnaire used to quantify prosopagnosic traits and help researchers identify cases of developmental prosopagnosia. The study found that high-PI20 scorers were more likely to demonstrate face recognition accuracy levels associated with developmental prosopagnosia, indicating meaningful evidence of face recognition impairment.
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Kaitlyn Turbett, Linda Jeffery, Jason Bell, Jessamy Burton, Romina Palermo
Summary: This study investigates the strength of serial dependence for faces across the broader autism phenotype and suggests that serial dependence may not be as specialized in individuals with more autistic traits. More autistic traits were associated with greater integration of less similar faces, indicating that serial dependence may not operate optimally in individuals with more autistic traits and could contribute to face recognition difficulties linked to autism.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Kaitlyn Turbett, Linda Jeffery, Jason Bell, Andrew Digges, Yueyuan Zheng, Janet Hsiao, Romina Palermo
Summary: Research indicates that individuals exhibit stronger serial dependence for own-race faces compared to other-race faces, and that this bias is associated with face recognition abilities. Additionally, preliminary evidence suggests that contact with other-race individuals may influence other-race serial dependence.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Max Coltheart, Martin Davies
Summary: Capgras delusion involves believing that familiar individuals have been replaced by strangers, which can happen in various scenarios such as encountering acquaintances, hearing the voice of familiar people, seeing pets, or personal possessions. This delusional belief is attributed to a weakness in sympathetic nervous system responses to familiar stimuli. In order for a delusional idea to develop into a belief, impaired hypothesis evaluation must also be present.
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Nicole Stuart, Andrew Whitehouse, Romina Palermo, Ellen Bothe, Nicholas Badcock
Summary: Reduced eye contact early in life may be a factor in the development of autism spectrum disorder, but there are conflicting theories about the neural mechanisms involved. The amygdala theory suggests that reduced eye contact is due to a hypoactive amygdala that fails to recognize eyes as important. In contrast, the eye avoidance hypothesis proposes that amygdala hyperactivity leads to eye avoidance. A review of studies found that most supported the eye avoidance hypothesis, indicating that individuals on the autism spectrum use eye avoidance to reduce amygdala-related hyperarousal.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Developmental
Saba Siddique, Clare A. M. Sutherland, Romina Palermo, Yong Zhi Foo, Derek C. Swe, Linda Jeffery
Summary: Research suggests that children as young as 3 to 5 years old begin to develop a mature system for forming trust impressions, which start to show adult-like patterns between the ages of 10 and 13. However, there are still outstanding questions in this field that need further investigation.
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology
Max Coltheart
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
History & Philosophy Of Science
Max Coltheart, Nicholas J. Wade
Summary: Ross Henry Day was a renowned Australian experimental psychologist known for his research on visual illusions and his significant role in establishing experimental psychology in Australia. He founded the first department of experimental psychology at Monash University in 1965 and played a leading role in the formation of the Australian Psychological Society in 1966. Additionally, he introduced the study of human factors in engineering and ergonomics to Australia.
HISTORICAL RECORDS OF AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Ophthalmology
Derek C. Swe, Romina Palermo, O. Scott Gwinn, Jason Bell, Anju Nakanishi, Jemma Collova, Clare A. M. Sutherland
Summary: This study aims to investigate whether trust processing in response to facial trustworthiness is mandatory, and it has been demonstrated that trustworthiness discrimination is robust at the neural level. Furthermore, task instructions do not affect trustworthiness discrimination, indicating the spontaneity of trustworthiness processing.
Article
Psychiatry
Martin Davies, Max Coltheart
Summary: Through literature review, it was found that many patients with Cotard delusion experience emotions such as anxiety, fear, guilt, distress, euphoria, and worry. Therefore, the complete absence of emotional responsivity cannot be the reason for the delusional belief “I am dead,” which may arise in response to symptoms of depersonalization or derealization.
COGNITIVE NEUROPSYCHIATRY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Saba Siddique, Linda Jeffery, Romina Palermo, Jemma R. Collova, Clare A. M. Sutherland
Summary: Children initially use facial trustworthiness to make investment decisions, but later shift to relying on partners' return behavior to guide their trust decisions. This dynamic use of different cues suggests sophisticated levels of social cognition in children, reflecting the social importance of trust impressions.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Saba Siddique, Clare A. M. Sutherland, Linda Jeffery, Derek Swe, O. Scott Gwinn, Romina Palermo
Summary: A study found that 8- to 9-year-old children exhibit sensitivity to variations in facial trustworthiness, showing significant neural responses in the absence of explicit instructions. The magnitude of children's neural responses to facial trustworthiness is similar to that of adults, suggesting that adult-like neural sensitivity to facial trustworthiness can emerge by the age of nine or less.
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dana L. Walker, Romina Palermo, Zoe Callis, Gilles E. Gignac
Summary: The association between intelligence and face processing ability is controversial, with some suggesting a moderate, positive association and others contending there is no meaningful association. The inconsistent results may be due to sample size differences and variability in the quality of intelligence measures administered. This study found a moderate, positive correlation between intelligence and face processing ability, suggesting that it may be integrated within the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model of intelligence.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Dana L. Walker, Romina Palermo, Gilles E. Gignac
Summary: Little research has examined the association between general figure closure speed and face-specific closure ability, both of which are important in intelligence and face processing. This study found a positive correlation between the two abilities, suggesting their convergent validity. The study also revealed a negative association between figure closure ability and trait-autism, particularly in nonverbal communication. These findings highlight the significance of general and face-specific figure closure abilities in understanding cognitive processes and autism-related difficulties.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Gilles E. Gignac, Romina Palermo, Ellen Bothe, Dana L. Walker, Jeremy B. Wilmer
Summary: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and the broader autistic phenotype (BAP) may be associated with difficulties in processing human faces. This study found that both face perception ability and facial emotional expression recognition ability significantly predicted the Communication dimension of the Autism Quotient (AQ), while vocabulary did not have a significant direct effect on the Communication dimension.
QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Neurosciences
Valerio Manippa, Annalisa Palmisano, Martina Ventura, Davide Rivolta
Summary: This paper provides an overview of the neuroimaging research on developmental prosopagnosia (DP) over the past 25 years. The findings suggest that individuals with DP exhibit structural and functional abnormalities in the ventral visual stream, particularly in the connectivity between the Fusiform Face Area and other face-sensitive regions.
