Faces, Music and Voices: Evidence for a Right-dominant Anterior Temporal Agnosia Syndrome

Acquired prosopagnosia is often associated with other deficits, such as dyschromatopsia and topographagnosia, from damage to adjacent perceptual networks. Our recent study showed that some subjects with developmental prosopagnosia also have congenital amusia, but it is not known whether those with the acquired variant have similar problems with music perception. Our goal was to determine if any subjects with acquired prosopagnosia also have acquired amusia, and if so, whether the presence of amusia was linked to a specific functional or anatomical variant of prosopagnosia.