Damasio A R, Damasio H, Van Hoesen G W
Neurology. 1982 Apr;32(4):331-41. doi: 10.1212/wnl.32.4.331.
Critical analysis of postmortem and CT scan data indicates that prosopagnosia is associated with bilateral lesions of the central visual system. Those lesions are located in the mesial occipitotemporal region and are functionally symmetric. The prime factor in the appearance of prosopagnosia is the requirement to evoke the specific context of a given visual stimulus. The "ambiguity" of the stimulus (the frequency with which different members of a group are visually similar) is an adjuvant factor. But prosopagnosia is not specific to human faces. The phenomenon appears in relation to any visually "ambiguous" stimulus whose recognition depends on contextual memory evocation.
对尸检和CT扫描数据的批判性分析表明，面孔失认症与中枢视觉系统的双侧病变有关。这些病变位于枕颞内侧区域，且在功能上是对称的。面孔失认症出现的主要因素是唤起给定视觉刺激的特定背景的需求。刺激的“模糊性”（一组中不同成员在视觉上相似的频率）是一个辅助因素。但面孔失认症并非人类面孔所特有。这种现象出现在与任何视觉上“模糊”的刺激有关的情况中，其识别取决于背景记忆的唤起。
