Developmental prosopagnosia in children: Phenotypic assessment and intervention
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Abstract
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Publications
Dalrymple KA
(2013)
The Dartmouth Database of Children's Faces: acquisition and validation of a new face stimulus set.
in PloS one
Dalrymple KA
(2011)
The anatomic basis of the right face-selective N170 IN acquired prosopagnosia: a combined ERP/fMRI study.
in Neuropsychologia
Dalrymple KA
(2016)
Impaired face detection may explain some but not all cases of developmental prosopagnosia.
in Developmental science
Dalrymple KA
(2014)
"A room full of strangers every day": the psychosocial impact of developmental prosopagnosia on children and their families.
in Journal of psychosomatic research
Dalrymple KA
(2017)
Face-specific and domain-general visual processing deficits in children with developmental prosopagnosia.
in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
Dalrymple KA
(2014)
Spontaneous perceptual facial distortions correlate with ventral occipitotemporal activity.
in Neuropsychologia
Dalrymple KA
(2014)
Dissociation between face perception and face memory in adults, but not children, with developmental prosopagnosia.
in Developmental cognitive neuroscience
Dalrymple KA
(2012)
Developmental prosopagnosia in childhood.
in Cognitive neuropsychology
| Description | We have documented a number of children who suffer from face recognition deficits due to neurodevelopmental problems and then gone on to assess their cognitive profiles. This work tentatively suggests face perception deficits are more common in children with developmental prosopagnosia (DP) than in adults with DP. We've also found that some kids with DP suffer from face detection deficits as predicted by a theory of the development of face processing, but that others have normal face detection. We have developed a battery of face and object processing tasks that we make available to interested clinicians and researchers. These tests assess face identity memory, face identity perception, face detection, face expression recognition, face gender discrimination, and object memory. |
| Exploitation Route | Our findings and the tests we've developed are the first systematic work on DP in kids so they will importantly shape future research on kids with DP. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Healthcare |
| URL | http://www.faceblind.org/social_perception/dpkids/dpkids.html |
| Description | Our project has set the foundation for understanding developmental prosopagnosia in children. We showed that DP in kids has substantial psychosocial effects in one paper. We hope this paper will contribute to efforts to demonstrate its effects to schools and other organizations involving children. Our more vision-oriented papers contribute to our growing understanding of the cognitive profile of DP in kids. Probably the most impactful outcome from our project are the behavioral tests that we've created to test face and object processing in children. Both clinicians and researchers have requested these tests and we expect that they will become standards in the field. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Education,Healthcare |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |