Are Prosopagnosic Patients Truly Prosopagnosic? Selectivity for Visual Object Type and Sensory Modality in Acquired Deficits of Face Recognition

Whether the processing defect in acquired prosopagnosia is selective for faces has long been contentious. Generic object recognition has often been assessed, but pre-morbid visual expertise for these other objects has seldom been taken into account. Likewise, multi-modal people recognition deficits have usually been excluded by history only, without object assessment of recognition through other routes. Because of this, it has been recently questioned whether right anterior temporal lesions cause face-selective recognition deficits.