Specificity of impaired facial identity recognition in children with suspected developmental prosopagnosia

Cognitive Neuropsychology
C Ellie WilsonJon Brock

Abstract

Adults experiencing face recognition difficulties in the absence of known brain injury are described as cases of developmental prosopagnosia (DP), under the assumption that specific face recognition impairments have always been present. However, only five childhood cases of DP have been reported, and the majority had additional socio-communicative impairments consistent with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We tested face recognition skills of six 4- to 8-year-old children, who were suspected of having DP, and tested for ASD using established diagnostic tools. Two children met criteria for ASD. One child did not exhibit consistent face recognition impairments. The remaining three children were severely impaired on multiple tasks of unfamiliar face recognition despite normal cognitive functioning and no evidence of ASD. Two of these children were also impaired at object recognition suggesting more general visual recognition problems. The final child showed normal object recognition demonstrating apparently specific problems with facial identity recognition.

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