Impairment of voice and face recognition in patients with hemispheric damage

Diana Roupas Van Lancker; Gerald J. Canter

doi:10.1016/0278-2626(82)90016-1

Impairment of voice and face recognition in patients with hemispheric damage

Diana Roupas Van Lancker, Gerald J. Canter

Communicative Sciences and Disorders

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Voice and face recognition were tested in 21 left- and 9 right-hemisphere-damaged patients. Test materials were photographs and recordings of famous political and entertainment personalities. Pathological face recognition (prosopagnosia) and voice recognition (phonagnosia) were both significantly more prevalent in the right-hemisphere group. Only one instance of prosopagnosia and one of phonagnosia were observed in the left-hemisphere group, all of whom were aphasic. Of the right-hemisphere cases, there were four instances of each agnosia, with three patients showing a dual impairment. These findings are discussed in relation to differential modes of processing by the two cerebral hemispheres.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	185-195
Number of pages	11
Journal	Brain and cognition
Volume	1
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-2626(82)90016-1
State	Published - Apr 1982

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Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Cognitive Neuroscience

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