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Title:	No Global Processing Deficit in the Navon Task in 14 Developmental Prosopagnosics
Author:	Nakayama, Ken; Yovel, Galit; Duchaine, Bradley Note: Order does not necessarily reflect citation order of authors.
Citation:	Duchaine, Bradley, Galit Yovel, and Ken Nakayama. 2007. No global processing deficit in the Navon task in 14 developmental prosopagnosics. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2, no. 2: 104-113.
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Abstract:	Faces are represented in a more configural or holistic manner than other objects. Substantial evidence indicates that this representation results from face-specific mechanisms, but some have argued that it is produced by configural mechanisms that can be applied to many objects including words. The face-specific hypothesis predicts that non-face configural processes will often be normal in prosopagnosic subjects, whereas the domain-general configural hypothesis predicts they will be deficient on all configural tasks. Although the weight of the evidence favors the face-specific hypothesis, a recent study reopened this issue when it was found that three out of five developmental prosopagnosics showed a larger local processing bias than controls in a global-local task (i.e. a Navon task). To examine this issue more thoroughly we tested a significantly larger sample of prosopagnosics (14 participants) who had severe face memory and face perception deficits. In contrast to the previous report, the developmental prosopagnosics performed normally in the global-local task. Like controls, they showed a typical global advantage and typical global-to-local consistency effects. The results demonstrate that the configural processing required by the Navon task is dissociable from face configural processing.
Published Version:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsm003
Citable link to this page:	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3224710

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