Superior voice recognition in a patient with acquired prosopagnosia and object agnosia.

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_11D708FD5DF6
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Superior voice recognition in a patient with acquired prosopagnosia and object agnosia.
Journal
Neuropsychologia
Author(s)
Hoover A.E., Démonet J.F., Steeves J.K.
ISSN
1873-3514 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0028-3932
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
48
Number
13
Pages
3725-3732
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov'tPublication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Anecdotally, it has been reported that individuals with acquired prosopagnosia compensate for their inability to recognize faces by using other person identity cues such as hair, gait or the voice. Are they therefore superior at the use of non-face cues, specifically voices, to person identity? Here, we empirically measure person and object identity recognition in a patient with acquired prosopagnosia and object agnosia. We quantify person identity (face and voice) and object identity (car and horn) recognition for visual, auditory, and bimodal (visual and auditory) stimuli. The patient is unable to recognize faces or cars, consistent with his prosopagnosia and object agnosia, respectively. He is perfectly able to recognize people's voices and car horns and bimodal stimuli. These data show a reverse shift in the typical weighting of visual over auditory information for audiovisual stimuli in a compromised visual recognition system. Moreover, the patient shows selectively superior voice recognition compared to the controls revealing that two different stimulus domains, persons and objects, may not be equally affected by sensory adaptation effects. This also implies that person and object identity recognition are processed in separate pathways. These data demonstrate that an individual with acquired prosopagnosia and object agnosia can compensate for the visual impairment and become quite skilled at using spared aspects of sensory processing. In the case of acquired prosopagnosia it is advantageous to develop a superior use of voices for person identity recognition in everyday life.
Keywords
Acoustic Stimulation, Adult, Agnosia/physiopathology, Auditory Perception/physiology, Female, Humans, Male, Photic Stimulation, Prosopagnosia/physiopathology, Recognition (Psychology)/physiology, Visual Perception/physiology
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