Center for Neuropsychological Research, Department of Neurosciences, Policlinico Gemelli, Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy. gainotti@ rm.unicatt.it
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2010 Aug;32(7):763-6. doi: 10.1080/13803390903512686. Epub 2010 Feb 24.
Since face recognition is the most powerful source of information for identifying familiar people, patients showing a multimodal defect in people recognition have been sometimes considered as affected by "prosopagnosia"-namely, by a form of visual agnosia, specifically affecting face recognition. In this note we report two anatomoclinical observations and a neuroanatomical study in which an inappropriate use of the term "prosopagnosia" was made, because the person recognition defect was not confined to the visual (face) modality, but also concerned voice and/or name of the target person. The dangers of this inappropriate use of the term prosopagnosia are briefly discussed.
由于人脸识别是识别熟人最有力的信息来源，因此有时会认为表现出多模式人际识别缺陷的患者受到了“面孔失认症”的影响——即一种专门影响人脸识别的视觉失认症。在本注释中，我们报告了两个解剖临床观察结果和一项神经解剖学研究，其中错误地使用了“面孔失认症”这一术语，因为识别障碍不仅限于视觉（面部）模式，还涉及目标人物的声音和/或姓名。简要讨论了这种不恰当地使用“面孔失认症”术语的危险。
