Seminar · Clinical Psychology
What's wrong with the prosopagnosia literature? A new approach to diagnosing and researching the condition
Edwin Burns · Edge Hill University
Wed, Dec 21, 2022 · 16:00 UTC
Developmental prosopagnosia is characterised by severe, lifelong difficulties when recognising facial identity. Most researchers require prosopagnosia cases exhibit ultra-conservative levels of impairment on the Cambridge Face Memory Test before they include them in their experiments. This results in the majority of people who believe that they have this condition being excluded from the scientific literature. In this talk I outline the many issues that will afflict prosopagnosia research if this continues, and show that these excluded cases do exhibit impairments on all commonly used diagnost