Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.
Neuropsychologia. 2012 Dec;50(14):3410-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.034. Epub 2012 Sep 23.
We report data from a prosopagnosic patient (PHD), and aged-matched control participants, from experiments where participants categorised individually presented emotional faces (experiment 1) and Thatcherised (from typical) faces (experiment 2). In experiment 2 participants also discriminated between simultaneously presented Thatcherised and typical faces. PHD was at chance categorising Thatcherised from typical faces. He was, however, able to discriminate between Thatcherised and typical faces, and partially able to categorise emotional faces. The results are discussed in terms of a loss of configural processing but preserved feature processing in PHD. The loss of configural processing impacts his categorisation of Thatcherised and typical faces, and his emotion processing, while his preserved feature processing supports his ability to categorise some emotional faces and his ability to discriminate between Thatcherised and typical faces.
我们报告了一位面孔失认症患者（PHD）和年龄匹配的对照组参与者的实验数据，这些实验中参与者对单独呈现的情绪面孔（实验 1）和撒切尔化（从典型）面孔（实验 2）进行了分类。在实验 2 中，参与者还同时对呈现的撒切尔化和典型面孔进行了区分。PHD 在对撒切尔化和典型面孔进行分类时表现得随机。然而，他能够区分撒切尔化和典型面孔，并且部分能够对情绪面孔进行分类。结果根据 PHD 中配置处理的丧失和特征处理的保留进行了讨论。配置处理的丧失影响了他对撒切尔化和典型面孔的分类以及他的情绪处理，而他保留的特征处理则支持他对一些情绪面孔进行分类以及他对撒切尔化和典型面孔进行区分的能力。
